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GO FORTH
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come out of
Example:
The words seemed to come out by themselves
Synonyms:
come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go forth"):
pop out (come out suddenly or forcefully)
radiate (issue or emerge in rays or waves)
leak (enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure)
escape (issue or leak, as from a small opening)
fall (come out; issue)
debouch (pass out or emerge; especially of rivers)
come out; fall out (come off)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Go away from a place
Example:
The ship leaves at midnight
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Verb group:
exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)
depart; leave; pull up stakes (remove oneself from an association with or participation in)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go forth"):
abandon; empty; vacate (leave behind empty; move out of)
slip away; sneak away; sneak off; sneak out; steal away (leave furtively and stealthily)
break away; bunk; escape; fly the coop; head for the hills; hightail it; lam; run; run away; scarper; scat; take to the woods; turn tail (flee; take to one's heels; cut and run)
rush away; rush off (depart in a hurry)
get out; pull out (move out or away)
depart; part; set forth; set off; set out; start; start out; take off (leave)
linger; tarry (leave slowly and hesitantly)
go out (take the field)
ride away; ride off (ride away on a horse, for example)
beetle off; bolt; bolt out; run off; run out (leave suddenly and as if in a hurry)
bugger off; buzz off; fuck off; get; scram (leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form)
decamp; skip; vamoose (leave suddenly)
come away (leave in a certain condition)
walk out (leave abruptly, often in protest or anger)
walk away; walk off (go away from)
pop off (leave quickly)
depart; quit; take leave (go away or leave)
desert (leave behind)
go out (leave the house to go somewhere)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valour.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
No longer did he go forth to kill meat— "And no longer did he eat the meat placed before him," Zilla broke in.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Dr. Van Helsing said very gravely:—"Madam Mina, you are, as always, most wise. You shall with us come; and together we shall do that which we go forth to achieve."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But be not sad, for I shall give half these crowns to my old mother, and half will I add to the money which you may have, and so we shall buy that yellow cog wherein we sailed to Bordeaux, and in it we shall go forth and seek Sir Nigel.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When it was over, Van Helsing stood up and said:—"Now, my dear friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we all armed, as we were on that night when first we visited our enemy's lair; armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack?"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“If I had my will I should never go forth, but should end my days here in Beaulieu. It hath been my home as far back as my mind can carry me, and it is a sore thing for me to have to leave it.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
