GO ABOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go about mean? 

• GO ABOUT (verb)
  The verb GO ABOUT has 1 sense:

1. begin to deal with

  Familiarity information: GO ABOUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO ABOUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Begin to deal with

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

approach; go about; set about

Context example:

approach a new project

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

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

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

confront; face; face up (deal with (something unpleasant) head on)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s VERB-ing

 Context examples 

But come now, stand by to go about.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Thomas Mugridge is cur-like in his subjection to me, while I go about in secret dread of him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I am a practical man, he said, and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A parachute will slow the capsule down so it can be retrieved, then researchers will go about examining the precious cargo taken directly from an asteroid.

(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)

By degrees, however, his sorrow grew less, and although at times he still grieved over his loss, he was able to go about as usual, and later on he married again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The shore would compel him to go about, and the contact would be broken.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And so you must judge for yourself, whether it would be better for you to go about the house or not.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They go about with her, now, more like her keepers than her husband and sister-in-law.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Brooke, my tutor, doesn't stay here, you know, and I have no one to go about with me, so I just stop at home and get on as I can.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The cog must go about anon, and I know not how we may keep the water out of her.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)