Word Study
go around
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb go around has 5 senses
- go around(v = verb.stative) Array - be sufficient; "There's not enough to go around" is one way to answer, do, serve, suffice
- go around(v = verb.communication) circulate, spread - become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" is one way to go, locomote, move, travel
- go around(v = verb.motion) outflank - go around the flank of (an opposing army); Array is one way to go, locomote, move, travel
- go around(v = verb.motion) revolve, rotate - 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" is one way to turn
- go around(v = verb.communication) bypass, get around, short-circuit - avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!" is one way to avoid
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
THESAURUS
go around
advance, answer, ascend, avail, back, back up, be equal to, bear, budge, bypass, change, change place, circle, circuit, circuiteer, circulate, circumambulate, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumrotate, circumvent, circumvolute, climb, close, close the circle, come full circle, compass, compass about, corner, crank, cycle, descend, describe a circle, detour, deviate, digress, do, do it, double a point, ebb, embay, embosom, embrace, encircle, enclasp, enclose, encompass, enfold, envelop, environ, enwrap, fill the bill, flank, flow, fulfill, get by, get over, girdle, girdle the globe, go, go about, go round, go round about, go sideways, go the round, gyrate, gyre, hack it, hold, invest, involve, just do, lap, make a circuit, make a detour, make the grade, meet, meet requirements, mount, move, move over, orbit, pass, pass muster, pirouette, pivot, plunge, progress, qualify, reach, regress, retrogress, revolve, rise, rotate, round, round a bend, round a corner, round a point, run, satisfy, screw, serve, serve the purpose, shift, sink, skirt, soar, spin, spiral, stand, stand up, stir, stream, stretch, subside, suffice, surround, swing, swivel, take it, travel, turn, turn a corner, turn a pirouette, turn around, turn round, twist, wamble, wane, wheel, whirl, wind, work, wrap
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