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GO THROUGH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apply thoroughly; think through

Example:

We worked through an example

Synonyms:

go through; run through; work through

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "go through" is one way to...):

work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go through"):

whip through (go through very fast)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eat up completely, as with great appetite

Example:

The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them

Synonyms:

consume; demolish; devour; down; go through

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "go through" is one way to...):

eat up; finish; polish off (finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They go through more bread

Sense 3

Meaning:

Undergo or live through a difficult experience

Example:

he saw action in Viet Nam

Synonyms:

experience; go through; see

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "go through" is one way to...):

undergo (pass through)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go through"):

experience; know; live (have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations)

endure; suffer (undergo or be subjected to)

meet; suffer (undergo or suffer)

feel (undergo passive experience of)

enjoy (have for one's benefit)

find; see; witness (perceive or be contemporaneous with)

come (experience orgasm)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Well, well, we’ve got to go through with it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) Worrying thoughts go through my mind.

(HADS - Worrying Thoughts Go Through My Mind, NCI Thesaurus)

Supplements do not have to go through the testing that drugs do.

(Dietary Supplements, NIH: National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements)

An x-ray is a type of high-energy radiation that can go through the body and onto film, making pictures of areas inside the chest, which can be used to diagnose disease.

(Chest Radiography, NCI Dictionary)

When you are ready to have your baby, you'll go through labor.

(Childbirth, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

And still, it was not a bad night, I mused—nothing to the nights I had been through on the Ghost; nothing, perhaps, to the nights we should go through in this cockle-shell.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But if it does go through and comes out at the corresponding point on the other side, we should not have more than a hundred feet to descend.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I fear you will compel me to go through a private marriage ceremony, besides that performed at the altar.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Raa! when they came to a narrow passage and the team closed together like a fan to go through.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)