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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" [syn: experience, see, go through]
2: apply thoroughly; think through; "We worked through an example" [syn: work through, run through, go through]
3: go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind" [syn: pass, go through, go across]
4: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" [syn: devour, down, consume, go through]
5: pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue; "Did he go through with the treatment?"; "He implemented a new economic plan"; "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal" [syn: follow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, implement, put through, go through]

Merriam Webster's

I. phrasal 1. to subject to thorough examination, consideration, or study 2. experience, undergo <had to go through quite an ordeal> 3. carry out, perform <went through his work in a daze> II. intransitive verb Date: 1513 1. to continue firmly or obstinately to the end <I was going through with it if it killed me — A. W. Long> 2. a. to receive approval or sanction ; pass b. to come to a desired or satisfactory conclusion

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you go through an experience or a period of time, especially an unpleasant or difficult one, you experience it. He was going through a very difficult time... South Africa was going through a period of irreversible change. PHRASAL VERB: V P n, V P n 2. If you go through a lot of things such as papers or clothes, you look at them, usually in order to sort them into groups or to search for a particular item. It was evident that someone had gone through my possessions. PHRASAL VERB: V P n 3. If you go through a list, story, or plan, you read or check it from beginning to end. Going through his list of customers is a massive job. PHRASAL VERB: V P n 4. When someone goes through a routine, procedure, or series of actions, they perform it in the way they usually do. Every night, they go through the same routine: he throws open the bedroom window, she closes it. PHRASAL VERB: V P n 5. If a law, agreement, or official decision goes through, it is approved by a parliament or committee. The bill might have gone through if the economy was growing. = get through PHRASAL VERB: V P

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

1. Execute, accomplish, finish. 2. Bear, endure, undergo, suffer.

Moby Thesaurus

battologize, be exposed to, be subjected to, beat the bushes, benumb, bite, blow, bring off, budget, burrow, carry into effect, carry into execution, carry off, carry out, carry through, chill, come through, cost, cost out, cut, delve, dig, disburse, dissipate, encounter, endure, expend, experience, explore, feel, fill, forage, fork out, freeze, frisk, frost, frostbite, fulfill, gain entree, gamble away, get into, get through, give an encore, go over, hang the expense, have, hunt, implement, incur costs, interpenetrate, invest, iterate, know, labor under, lavish, lay out, look around, look round, look through, make an entrance, make way into, meet, meet up with, meet with, nip, nose around, numb, open the purse, outlay, pad, pass through, pay, pay out, penetrate, pierce, poke, poke around, practice, pry, put in practice, put into effect, put into practice, put out, put through, reaffirm, reassert, recapitulate, recite, recount, refrigerate, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, reprint, research, restate, resume, retail, retell, review, reword, root, run over, run through, run up against, say over, say over again, scatter, schedule, search, search through, seize the day, shell out, sink money in, slather, smell around, sow broadcast, spend, splurge, squander, stand under, suffer, sum up, summarize, sustain, taste, tautologize, throw away, throw money around, translate into action, undergo, work out