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GO AROUND
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Avoid something unpleasant or laborious
Example:
You cannot bypass these rules!
Synonyms:
bypass; get around; go around; short-circuit
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "go around" is one way to...):
avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Become widely known and passed on
Example:
the story went around in the office
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "go around" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Verb group:
broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread (cause to become widely known)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Turn on or around an axis or a center
Example:
The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "go around" is one way to...):
turn (move around an axis or a center)
Verb group:
circumvolve; rotate (cause to turn on an axis or center)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go around"):
drive in; screw (cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion)
screw (turn like a screw)
wheel; wheel around (change directions as if revolving on a pivot)
gyrate; reel; spin; spin around; whirl (revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis)
swirl; twiddle; twirl; whirl (turn in a twisting or spinning motion)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Go around the flank of (an opposing army)
Synonyms:
go around; outflank
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "go around" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 5
Meaning:
Be sufficient
Example:
There's not enough to go around
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "go around" is one way to...):
answer; do; serve; suffice (be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
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