GO AROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go around mean? 

• GO AROUND (verb)
  The verb GO AROUND has 5 senses:

1. be sufficient

2. become widely known and passed on

3. go around the flank of (an opposing army)

4. turn on or around an axis or a center

5. avoid something unpleasant or laborious

  Familiarity information: GO AROUND used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO AROUND (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be sufficient

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

There's not enough to go around

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

answer; do; serve; suffice (be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become widely known and passed on

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

circulate; go around; spread

Context example:

the story went around in the office

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

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

Verb group:

broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread (cause to become widely known)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Go around the flank of (an opposing army)

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

go around; outflank

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

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

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Turn on or around an axis or a center

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

go around; revolve; rotate

Context example:

The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire

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

turn (move around an axis or a center)

Verb group:

circumvolve; rotate (cause to turn on an axis or center)

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

drive in; screw (cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion)

screw (turn like a screw)

wheel; wheel around (change directions as if revolving on a pivot)

gyrate; reel; spin; spin around; whirl (revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis)

swirl; twiddle; twirl; whirl (turn in a twisting or spinning motion)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Avoid something unpleasant or laborious

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bypass; get around; go around; short-circuit

Context example:

You cannot bypass these rules!

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

avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Let it go around no more.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Like the Moon on its orbit around the Earth, WASP-76b is ‘tidally locked’: it takes as long to rotate around its axis as it does to go around the star.

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

He backed away, stiff-legged with self-consciousness, and tried to go around her.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There are not enough soup-kitchens and bread-lines to go around, you know, and when men have nothing in their purses they usually die, and die miserably—unless they are able to fill their purses pretty speedily.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was no tenseness in her body, her arms did not go around him, and her lips met his without their wonted pressure.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He could watch every wheel go around.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"We don't go around very much," he said. "In fact I was just thinking I don't know a soul here."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)