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(verb) be abolished or discarded; "These ugly billboards have to go!" "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge" |
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Related Words: disappear, go away, vanish |
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(noun) (Japanese) a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters |
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Synonyms: go game |
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Related Words: board game |
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(verb) be spent; "All my money went for food and rent" |
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(adjective) functioning correctly and ready for action; "all systems are go" |
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Antonyms: no-go |
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(verb) move away from a place into another direction; "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon" |
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Synonyms: depart, go away |
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Related Words: blow, exit, get out, go out, leave, shove along, shove off |
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Antonyms: come |
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(verb) follow a procedure or take a course; "We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels" |
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Synonyms: move, proceed |
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Related Words: act, appeal, embark, move, steamroller, venture, work |
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(verb) pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action; "How is it going?" "The day went well until I got your call" |
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(verb) be or continue to be in a certain condition; "The children went hungry that day" |
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Related Words: be |
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(verb) be awarded; be allotted; "The first prize goes to Mary"; "Her money went on clothes" |
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(verb) lead. extend, or afford access; "This door goes to the basement"; "The road runs South" |
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Synonyms: lead |
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Related Words: be |
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(verb) be sounded, played, or expressed; "How does this song go again?" |
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(verb) be contained in; "How many times does 18 go into 54?" |
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(verb) be ranked or compare; "This violinist is as good as Juilliard-trained violinists go" |
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Related Words: compare |
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(noun) a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work" |
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Synonyms: spell, tour, turn |
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Related Words: duty period, shift, work shift |
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(verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!" |
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Synonyms: become, get |
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Related Words: break, change state, come, develop into, grow into, run, settle, sober, sober up, take, take effect, turn |
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(verb) follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?" |
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Synonyms: proceed |
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Related Words: come, come about, do, drag, drag on, drag out, fare, get along, go on, hap, happen, make out, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(verb) progress by being changed: "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting" |
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Synonyms: move, run |
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Related Words: change |
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(verb) give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates" |
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Synonyms: plump |
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Related Words: choose, pick out, select, take |
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(verb) have a turn; make one's move in a game; "Can I go now?" |
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Synonyms: move |
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Related Words: bluff, bluff out, cast, castle, check, draw, maneuver, manoeuvre, open, operate, ruff, serve, stalemate, trump |
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(verb) go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?" |
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Synonyms: rifle |
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Related Words: search |
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(verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?" "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect";"The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell" |
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Synonyms: locomote, move, travel |
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Related Words: accompany, advance, angle, arise, ascend, automobile, back, bang, be adrift, belt along, betake oneself, billow, blow, bounce, breeze, bucket along, cannonball along, career, carry, cast, change, circle, circuit, circulate, come, come back, come down, come up, continue, crank, crawl, creep, cruise, derail, descend, do, drag, draw, draw back, drift, drive, ease, err, fall, ferry, float, flock, fly, follow, forge, get about, get around, get back, ghost, glide, go across, go around, go back, go by, go down, go forward, go on, go past, go through, go to, go up, hasten, hie, hiss, hotfoot, hurry, hurtle, island hop, jounce, journey, jump, lance, lead, lift, lurch, march on, meander, motor, move around, move back, move on, move up, navigate, outflank, overfly, pace, pan, pass, pass by, pass on, pass over, pelt along, play, plough, plow, precede, precess, proceed, progress, propagate, pull, pull away, pull back, pursue, race, raft, ramble, range, recede, repair to, resort to, retire, retreat, retrograde, return, ride, rip, rise, roam, roll, round, rove, run, run off the rails, rush, rush along, scramble, seek, shack, shuttle, sift, sit, ski, slice into, slice through, slide, slither, speed, spirt, spread, spurt, stagger, steam, step, stray, surpass, swan, swash, swim, swing, taxi, tear, thread, tool, trail, transfer, travel, travel along, travel by, travel purposefully, travel rapidly, tread, trudge, trundle, turn, vagabond, waft, walk, wander, wash, weave, wend, wheel, whine, whish, whisk, whistle, whoosh, wind, wing, withdraw, zigzag, zip, zoom |
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(verb) begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!" |
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Synonyms: get going, start |
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Related Words: come on, come up, get off the ground, go on, take off |
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(verb) make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
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Synonyms: sound |
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Related Words: babble, bang, beat, beep, birr, blare, bleep, blow, bombilate, bombinate, boom, boom out, bubble, burble, buzz, cause to be perceived, chatter, chime, chink, chug, clang, clangor, clangour, clank, claxon, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, crack, crump, crunch, din, drone, drum, echo, glug, grumble, guggle, gurgle, honk, hum, knock, lap, make noise, noise, patter, peal, ping, pink, pitter-patter, plunk, pop, purr, rap, rattle, resonate, resound, reverberate, ring, ripple, roll, rumble, rustle, scrunch, sing, slosh, slush, snap, snarl, splash, splat, splosh, squelch, swish, swosh, tap, thrum, thud, thump, tick, ticktack, ticktock, ting, tink, tinkle, toot, trump, twang, whir, whirr, whish, whistle, whiz, whizz |
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(verb) be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired; "This skirt won't go around your waist" |
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Synonyms: fit |
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Related Words: fit, joint |
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(verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" |
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Synonyms: extend, lead, pass, run |
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Related Words: be, come, go deep, go far, radiate, ray |
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(verb) blend or harmonize; "This flavor will blend with those in your dish"; "This sofa won't go with the chairs" |
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Synonyms: blend, blend in |
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Related Words: accord, agree, consort, fit in, harmonize |
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(verb) have a particular form; "the story or argument runs....", "as the saying goes..." |
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Synonyms: run |
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Related Words: be |
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(verb) be in the right place or situation; "Where do these books belong?" "Let's put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government"; "Where do these books go?" |
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Synonyms: belong |
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Related Words: be |
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(noun) a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" |
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Synonyms: crack, fling, offer, pass, whirl |
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Related Words: attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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(verb) to be spent or finished; "The money had gone after a few days"; "Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest" |
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Synonyms: run low, run short |
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Related Words: cease, end, finish, terminate |
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(verb) pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully" |
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Synonyms: decease, die, exit, expire, pass away, perish |
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Related Words: buy it, buy the farm, change state, choke, conk, croak, die suddenly, die unexpectedly, drop dead, drown, fall, kick the bucket, pip out, pop off, predecease, snuff it, starve, succumb, suffocate, turn, yield |
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(verb) function properly; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in" |
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Synonyms: function, operate, run, work |
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Related Words: cut, double, roll, run, serve, service |
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(verb) continue to live, endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "The legend of Elvis lives on"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" |
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Synonyms: endure, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive |
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Related Words: hold up, live out, perennate, stand up |
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(verb) stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffe maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town" |
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Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way |
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Related Words: blow, blow out, burn out, change, crash, go down, malfunction, misfire, misfunction |
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