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GO ACROSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go across mean? 

GO ACROSS (verb)
  The verb GO ACROSS has 1 sense:

1. go across or through

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GO ACROSS (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Go across or through

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

go across; pass; go through

Context examples:

We passed the point where the police car had parked / A terrible thought went through his mind

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

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)

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

break through; crack (pass through (a barrier))

cycle (pass through a cycle)

make; work (proceed along a path)

lock (pass by means through a lock in a waterway)

negotiate (succeed in passing through, around, or over)

overstep; transgress; trespass (pass beyond (limits or boundaries))

muscle (make one's way by force)

crash (move violently as through a barrier)

cut (pass directly and often in haste)

move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit (make a passage or journey from one place to another)

run (cover by running; run a certain distance)

infiltrate; pass through (pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict)

cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse (travel across or pass over)

transit (pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place))

squeak by; squeak through (escape)

blunder; fumble (make one's way clumsily or blindly)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP


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