Phrasal Verbs With 'Go'

Go about phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Deal with something
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: How should I GO ABOUT telling her the bad news?
  2. Meaning: Circulate
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: A rumour is GOING ABOUT involving the Attorney General.
  3. Meaning: Continue to do something; keep busy with something
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Despite the threat of conflict, people WENT ABOUT their lives as usual.
  4. Meaning: Work on something
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: You're not GOING ABOUT the problem the right way.

Go across phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Move to another side or place
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: He WENT ACROSS to the opposition.

Go after phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Chase, try to get
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: The cat WENT AFTER the pigeon, but it flew away.

Go against phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Lose a decision or a verdict of a court
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: If the decision GOES AGAINST me, I'll go bankrupt.

Go ahead phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Proceed
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The construction of the bypass WENT AHEAD despite the protests from environmentalists.

Go ahead with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Proceed
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: We now intend to GO AHEAD WITH the final stage of the project.

Go along with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Accept a decision or suggestion
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I didn't really agree, but I WENT ALONG WITH the decision because I was in the minority.
  2. Meaning: Accompany
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I plan to GO ALONG WITH them as far as Los Angeles.

Go around phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Circulate
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: A rumour is GOING AROUND about the Attorney General.
  2. Meaning: Be or have enough of something
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: There aren't enough jobs to GO AROUND for the numbers of people graduating nowadays.
  3. Meaning: Visit
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: I WENT AROUND for dinner at their house.

Go at phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Attack or approach something with vigour
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She WENT AT her dinner like she hadn't eaten for days.

Go away phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Leave a place or disappear
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: This drug should make the pain GO AWAY.

Go back phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Have a long history
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: He and I GO BACK a long way- we were at school together.
  2. Meaning: Return to, start doing something again
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: We WENT BACK to work after the break.

Go back on phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Break a promise
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: The government have GONE BACK ON their promise not to raise taxes.

Go before phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Precede
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: We can´t ignore what has GONE BEFORE and pretend that everything has been OK.

Go below phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Leave the top deck of a ship
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The captain told the passengers to GO BELOW when the storm started.

Go by phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: The passing of time
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: Ten years WENT BY before we saw each other again.
  2. Meaning: Trust or depend on for correct information
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Don't GO BY my watch; it's usually a bit slow.
  3. Meaning: Pay a short visit, call
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: Nobody was at home when I WENT BY yesterday.

Go down phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Decrease, get smaller
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The price of scanners has GONE DOWN recently.
  2. Meaning: Sink
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The Titanic WENT DOWN after it hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
  3. Meaning: Sunset
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The sun WENT DOWN at seven o'clock.
  4. Meaning: Be sent to to prison
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: He WENT DOWN for ten years for armed robbery.
  5. Meaning: Become recorded as or known as
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: It WENT DOWN as the worst day in the history of the company.
  6. Meaning: Be eaten or swallowed
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The medicine WENT DOWN easily.
  7. Meaning: Fall to the ground
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The boxer WENT DOWN in the second round.
  8. Meaning: Happen, take place
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The police thought that a big crime was GOING DOWN that night.
  9. Meaning: Stop working, especially computers
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The computer system WENT DOWN for an hour last night.
  10. Meaning: Become dimmer
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The lights WENT DOWN and the audience stopped talking.
  11. Meaning: Be received by people, in terms of their reaction
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: My joke WENT DOWN very badly.

Go down on phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Perform oral sex
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: He WENT DOWN ON her.

Go down to phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Be defeated
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Chelsea WENT DOWN TO Arsenal in a thrilling game.

Go down with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Fall ill
    (Inseparable | British English)
    » Example: She WENT DOWN WITH a virus.
  2. Meaning: Find acceptance
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Do you think the scheme will GO DOWN WITH the farmers in the area?

Go for phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Attack
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: The neighbour's dog WENT FOR the postman and bit him.
  2. Meaning: Be attracted to
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She tends to GO FOR guys like him.
  3. Meaning: Choose, select
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I'll GO FOR the soup of the day, followed by the duck.
  4. Meaning: Try to get
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: The player WENT FOR the ball but missed.
  5. Meaning: Have something favourable
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: The play didn't have much GOING FOR IT and we left halfway through.
  6. Meaning: Pass for or serve as
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: It's a couch that also GOES FOR a bed.

Go for it phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Be assertive and ready to initiate action. (Related to the meaning 'attack')
    (Inseparable | International English | Contributed By: )
    » Example: He was not always successful, but whatever he tried to do he would always GO FOR IT.

Go forth phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Leave a place
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: He WENT FORTH and found a wife in another city.
  2. Meaning: Travel abroad, leave a place
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: They WENT FORTH to spread the word of the new religion.

Go forward phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Move clocks ahead
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The clocks MOVE FORWARD an hour on Sunday.
  2. Meaning: Progress
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The top three teams GO FORWARD to the next round.

Go in phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Go to hospital for treatment, surgery, etc.
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: He WENT IN for a triple bypass operation two days ago.
  2. Meaning: Fit
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The cable GOES IN here.
  3. Meaning: Disappear, become obscured by a cloud
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The sun has GONE IN.
  4. Meaning: Attack
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The troops WENT IN at dawn.

Go in for phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Enter a competition or sit an exam
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: He WENT IN FOR the photography prize, but didn't win.
  2. Meaning: Support, advocate
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I don't GO IN FOR the claims being made about blogging.
  3. Meaning: Like, have an interest in
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: He GOES IN FOR classical music.
  4. Meaning: Make a career choice
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Have you thought about GOING IN FOR teaching?

Go in with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Form a union or alliance
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: They're going to GO IN WITH the Social Democrats.
  2. Meaning: Join, enter
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Ask the other to GO IN WITH them on the plan

Go into phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Discuss in some detail
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: They refused to GO INTO exactly what was wrong.
  2. Meaning: Enter a profession, hospital, trade, market
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She WENT INTO banking after she'd finished university.
  3. Meaning: Begin a speech or description
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: He WENT INTO a long attack on the way press had handled the issue.
  4. Meaning: Be dedicated or devoted
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: A lot of time and effort WENT INTO this book.
  5. Meaning: Be contained in a larger number
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Five GOES INTO sixty 12 times

Go it phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Behave in a reckless way
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: Shouting at the boss like that is GOING IT.
  2. Meaning: Move or drive very fast
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: After the traffic jam, he really WENT IT to make up time.

Go it alone phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Do something without help
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: He prefers to GO IT ALONE rather then working with the team.

Go off phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Explode (bomb), start ringing (alarm)
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The fire alarm WENT OFF because someone was smoking in the toilets.
  2. Meaning: Go bad
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The milk WENT OFF because I forgot to put it in the fridge.
  3. Meaning: Start to dislike
    (Inseparable | British English)
    » Example: I WENT OFF her when she lied to me.
  4. Meaning: Leave a place
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: Please don't GO OFF until we have sorted this out.
  5. Meaning: Take place, follow a plan or pattern
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The party WENT OFF well.
  6. Meaning: Stop working (electric/electronic equipment)
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The lights GO OFF automatically when the office is empty.

Go off with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Elope, run away with someone
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She WENT OFF WITH her friend's husband.
  2. Meaning: Steal
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: He WENT OFF WITH my credit cards.

Go on phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Continue
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: He WENT ON and ON talking and I was so bored.
  2. Meaning: Happen
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: There are loads of people out in the street; what's GOING ON?
  3. Meaning: Start doing or taking something
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She WENT ON the pill when she met him.
  4. Meaning: Be guided
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: The investigators have no clues to GO ON.
  5. Meaning: Be nearly a certain period of time
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: It's GOING ON ten years since we met.
  6. Meaning: Progress
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: They asked me how the project was GOING ON.
  7. Meaning: Spend money
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Most of my salary GOES ON my mortgage repayments.
  8. Meaning: Start working (electric/electronic equipment)
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The alarm GOES ON when you close the front door.

Go on about phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Talk too much
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: He's always GOING ON ABOUT his kids.

Go on at phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Pester, try to make someone do something by repeatedly asking or suggesting
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: He WENT ON AT his parents until they bought him the game.

Go on to phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Proceed
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: We had dinner and WENT ON TO a few bars.

Go on with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Continue doing
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Please GO ON WITH your work.

Go one phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: A way of encouraging someone
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: GO ON, apply for the job.

Go out phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Stop burning, be extinguished
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The candle WENT OUT and left us in darkness.
  2. Meaning: Leave a place
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: He WENT OUT last night.
  3. Meaning: Go on strike
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The workers WENT OUT for more money.
  4. Meaning: Become infashionable
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: That sort of tie WENT OUT last year.
  5. Meaning: Move backwards, of a tide
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The tide GOES OUT in the evening.
  6. Meaning: Be eliminated in a competition
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: England WENT OUT in the second round.
  7. Meaning: Be transmitted
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The item WENT OUT on the news yesterday.
  8. Meaning: Be sent
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The newsletter WENT OUT last night.
  9. Meaning: Intend
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: I didn't GO OUT to offend them.

Go out for phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Become a candidate, apply for something
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She WENT OUT FOR a place on the team.

Go out to phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Feel sympathy with someone
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Our condolences GO OUT TO all the families who have lost people in this tragic accident.

Go out with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Have a relationship with
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: He's been GOING OUT WITH his girlfriend for around six months now.

Go over phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Look at something, revise
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: We WENT OVER our notes before the exam.
  2. Meaning: Visit
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: I hadn't seen her for a while, so I WENT OVER on Friday night.
  3. Meaning: Be approved or accepted
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: My plans WENT OVER well.
  4. Meaning: Repeat or explain
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Could you GO OVER that point again, please?
  5. Meaning: Clean
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I WENT OVER the living room with the vacuum cleaner before they arrived.

Go over to phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Go on a journey
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I'm GOING OVER TO Hong Kong next month.
  2. Meaning: Become converted
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She WENT OVER TO Islam when she was living in the Middle East.
  3. Meaning: Change to something different
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I used to drink beer but I have GONE OVER TO wine.

Go past phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Pass without stopping
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She WENT PAST me without saying hello.

Go round phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Be or have enough of something
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: There aren't enough jobs to GO ROUND for the numbers of people graduating nowadays.
  2. Meaning: Circulate
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: There's a nasty rumour GOING ROUND about them.
  3. Meaning: Visit
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: I WENT ROUND last night to see them.

Go through phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Experience
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: You wouldn't believe what I WENT THROUGH when I was ill!
  2. Meaning: Read again
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I WENT THROUGH my notes before the exam.
  3. Meaning: Examine, search
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I WENT THROUGH my desk looking for the letter.
  4. Meaning: Do something in a certain way or following certain procedures
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: You must GO THROUGH the proper channels to get the approval.
  5. Meaning: Explain
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: He WENT THROUGH his ideas twice but I couldn't really understand them.
  6. Meaning: Be approved formally or sanctioned
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: My divorce WENT THROUGH last week.
  7. Meaning: Enter
    (Inseparable | American English)
    » Example: They said I could GO THROUGH the exam room.
  8. Meaning: Consume or spend
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: We WENT THROUGH a fortune on our holiday.
  9. Meaning: Perform or carry something out
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I WENT THROUGH my work in a daze after I heard the news.

Go through with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Do or complete something you've agreed to
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: He did promise, but I doubt that he'll GO THROUGH WITH it.

Go to phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Allocate money
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: About half of my income GOES TO pay the mortgage.

Go together phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Harmonize or be compatible
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: Drinking and driving don't GO TOGETHER.

Go towards phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Contibute
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: The money WENT TOWARDS my university fees.

Go under phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Go bankrupt
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: Many small shops are GOING UNDER because they cannot compete with the supermarkets.
  2. Meaning: Lose consciousness
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: She WENT UNDER a few minutes after they administered the anaesthetic.
  3. Meaning: Sink
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The ship WENT UNDER in a heavy storm.

Go up phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Rise or climb
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The price of petrol has GONE UP sharply because of the increase in duty in the Government's budget.
  2. Meaning: Approach
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: We WENT UP and asked them for some information about the courses.
  3. Meaning: Be built
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: Skyscrapers are GOING UP everywhere in the city centre.
  4. Meaning: Be heard
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: A huge cheer WENT UP when the president arrived.
  5. Meaning: Be promoted
    (Intransitive | International English)
    » Example: The top three teams GO UP at the end of the season.

Go up to phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Approach
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She WENT UP TO him and asked him if he wanted a drink.
  2. Meaning: Attend a university
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She WENT UP TO Cambridge after she finished secondary school.
  3. Meaning: Reach
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: The book only GOES UP TO the start of the Second World War.

Go with phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Combine nicely
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: Does this tie GO WITH my shirt?
  2. Meaning: Accompany
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: A lot of benefits GO WITH the job.
  3. Meaning: Accept, agree to
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: We're GOING WITH our original plan in the end.
  4. Meaning: Date, have a relationship with
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: She's been GOING WITH him since she was at university.

Go without phrasal verb

  1. Meaning: Not have
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: I had to GO WITHOUT lunch today because I didn't have any time.
  2. Meaning: Cope without having something
    (Inseparable | International English)
    » Example: They're not coming, so we'll have to GO WITHOUT their help.

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