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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:

circulate; go around; spread

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:

go around; revolve; rotate

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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