Phrasal verbs start with Go (Phrasal Verbs With Go). A Phrasal verb like Go about, Go across, Go after, Go against, Go ahead, and more.
Phrasal Verbs With Go
Go about
Meaning: Deal with something
Example: He doesn’t have much go about him, does he?
Go about
Meaning: Circulate
Example: They go about their tasks with little enthusiasm.
Go across
Meaning: Move to another side or place
Example: Why don’t you go across to Mary’s place and see how she is?
Go after
Meaning: Chase, try to get
Example: Peterson was let go after less than two years.
Go against
Meaning: Lose a decision or a verdict of a court
Example: Teenagers often go against the stream.
Go ahead
Meaning: Proceed
Example: It is unclear whether the meeting will go ahead as planned.
Go ahead with
Meaning: Proceed
Example: We’ve received permission to go ahead with the music festival in spite of opposition from local residents.
Go along with
Meaning: Accept a decision or suggestion
Example: I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.
Go around
Meaning: Circulate
Example: I asked them to go around to the house to see if they were there.
Go around
Meaning: Be or have enough of something
Example: The belt won’t go around my waist.
Go at
Meaning: Attack or approach something with vigour
Example: Go at least once a year to a place you have never been before.
Go away
Meaning: Leave a place or disappear
Example: Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot.
Go back
Meaning: Have a long history
Example: My efforts to go back to sleep proved futile.
Go back
Meaning: Return to, start doing something again
Example: I must go back, I’ve left my car keys.
Go back on
Meaning: Break a promise
Example: The government looks likely to go back on its decision to close the mines.
Go before
Meaning: Precede
Example: The proposal is likely to go before the committee.
Go below
Meaning: Leave the top deck of a ship
Example: I had to go below ground to an office where I spoke to a policeman.
Go by
Meaning: The passing of time
Example: We convinced Anne to go by plane.
Go by
Meaning: Trust or depend on for correct information
Example: I’m terrified of flying I’d rather go by sea.
Go down
Meaning: Decrease, get smaller
Example: Never let the sun go down on your anger.
Go down
Meaning: Sink
Example: Few of his works will go down to posterity.
Go down on
Meaning: Perform oral sex
Example: I had to go down on the floor to clean the room.
Go down to
Meaning: Be defeated
Example: Few of his works will go down to posterity.
Go down with
Meaning: Fall ill
Example: The captain didn’t go down with his ship.
Go for
Meaning: Attack
Example: He proposed that we should go for a walk.
Go for
Meaning: Be attracted to
Example: Let’s go for a run across the fields.
Go for it
Meaning: Be assertive and ready to initiate action. (Related to the meaning ‘attack’)
Example: Go for it, John! You know you can beat him.
Go forth
Meaning: Leave a place
Example: The army went forth amid great cheering and applause.
Go forward
Meaning: Move clocks ahead
Example: The clocks go forward in the spring.
Go forward
Meaning: Progress
Example: He must go forward on faith, not feeling.
Go in
Meaning: Go to hospital for treatment, surgery, etc.
Example: These old photographs should go in the family archives.
Go in
Meaning: Disappear, become obscured by a cloud
Example: I go in for stamp collecting and judo.
Go in for
Meaning: Enter a competition or sit an exam
Example: Are you planning to go in for the 100 metres race?
Go in for
Meaning: Support, advocate
Example: His brother doesn’t go in for sports.
Go in with
Meaning: Form a union or alliance
Example: My brothers are opening a garage and they want me to go in with them.
Go into
Meaning: Discuss in some detail
Example: That model won’t go into production before late 1990.
Go into
Meaning: Enter a profession, hospital, trade, market
Example: I can’t go into all the niceties of meaning.
Go into
Meaning: Begin a speech or description
Example: At the first cold of autumn, many insects go into hibernation.
Go it
Meaning: Behave in a reckless way
Example: He’s decided to leave the band and go it alone as a singer.
Go it alone
Meaning: Do something without help
Example: That was when Brian decided to go it alone, sourcing the units and adapting them himself.
Go off
Meaning: Explode (bomb), start ringing (alarm)
Example: Don’t go off at half cock and accept any offer you’ll regret later.
Go off
Meaning: Stop working (electric/electronic equipment)
Example: The explosive device was timed to go off at the rush hour.
Go off with
Meaning: Elope, run away with someone
Example: Her husband went off with another woman and left her facing a mountain of debt.
Go on
Meaning: Continue
Example: The show will go on playing through the end of the year.
Go on about
Meaning: Talk too much
Example: We go on about those Barossa and Hunter River reds of ours, but really!
Go on at
Meaning: Pester, try to make someone do something by repeatedly asking or suggesting
Example: The investigation has only just started so the police haven’t got much to go on at the moment.
Go on to
Meaning: Proceed
Example: A higher proportion of Americans go on to higher education than is the case in Britain.
Go on with
Meaning: Continue doing
Example: We’ll go on with the work, whether we can find the necessary tools or not.
Go one
Meaning: A way of encouraging someone
Example: Unfortunately, most businesspeople go one of two ways-they either avoid commas completely or saturate every line.
Go out
Meaning: Stop burning, be extinguished
Example: What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
Go out for
Meaning: Become a candidate, apply for something
Example: I finally managed to persuade her to go out for a drink with me.
Go out to
Meaning: Feel sympathy with someone
Example: Shall we go out to the cinema or stay at home?
Go out with
Meaning: Have a relationship with
Example: I shall go out with whoever I please.
Go over
Meaning: Look at something, revise
Example: If you will write the article, I’ll go over it and touch it up for you.
Go over
Meaning: Be approved or accepted
Example: Go over to the other/far side of the room.
Go over to
Meaning: Go on a journey
Example: Now let’s go over to our London studio for commentary on the wrestling.
Go past
Meaning: Pass without stopping
Example: After you go past the church keep bearing left/right.
Go round
Meaning: Be or have enough of something
Example: The sun appears to go round the Earth, but it’s an illu -sion.
Go round
Meaning: Circulate
Example: I suggest you phone before you go round there.
Go through
Meaning: Experience
Example: Go through the double doors and turn left.
Go through
Meaning: Examine, search
Example: Four teams will go through to the semi-final.
Go through with
Meaning: Do or complete something you’ve agreed to
Example: She decided not to go through with the operation.
Go to
Meaning: Allocate money
Example: Never go to bed on an argument.
Go together
Meaning: Harmonize or be compatible
Example: These people go together all right.
Go towards
Meaning: Contibute
Example: All donations go towards the cost of warehousing.
Go under
Meaning: Go bankrupt
Example: The firm will go under unless business improves.
Go up
Meaning: Rise or climb
Example: The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
Go up
Meaning: Approach
Example: When will you go up to Cambridge University?
Go up to
Meaning: Approach
Example: I usually go up to London on the sleeper.
Go with
Meaning: Combine nicely
Example: Whatever you go, go with all your heart.
Go with
Meaning: Accompany
Example: In a moment of aberration, she agreed to go with him.
Go without
Meaning: Not have
Example: The longer your child can go without needing a filling, the better.
