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Go
go a long way
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go after
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go ahead
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go along with
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go at
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
v
1: be sufficient; "There's not enough to go around"
2: become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" [syn: go around, spread, circulate]
3: go around the flank of (an opposing army) [syn: outflank, go around]
4: turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire" [syn: revolve, go around, rotate]
5: avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!" [syn: bypass, short-circuit, go around, get around]
Merriam Webster's
intransitive verb Date: circa 15201. a. to pass from place to place; go here and thereb. to have currency; circulate < an amusing story is going around >2. to satisfy demand; fill the need< not enough jobs to go around >
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
1. If you go around to someone's house, you go to visit them at their house. I asked them to go around to the house to see if they were there... Mike went round to see them. PHRASAL VERB: V P to n, V P to-inf 2. If you go around in a particular way, you behave or dress in that way, often as part of your normal life. I had got in the habit of going around with bare feet... If they went around complaining publicly, they might not find it so easy to get another job. = go about PHRASAL VERB: V P prep, V P -ing, also V P adj 3. If a piece of news or a joke is going around, it is being told by many people in the same period of time. There's a nasty sort of rumour going around about it. PHRASAL VERB: V P 4. If there is enough of something to go around, there is enough of it to be shared among a group of people, or to do all the things for which it is needed. Eventually we will not have enough water to go around. PHRASAL VERB: V P
Moby Thesaurus
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