GO THROUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go through mean? 

• GO THROUGH (verb)
  The verb GO THROUGH has 3 senses:

1. undergo or live through a difficult experience

2. apply thoroughly; think through

3. eat up completely, as with great appetite

  Familiarity information: GO THROUGH used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO THROUGH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Undergo or live through a difficult experience

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

experience; go through; see

Context example:

he saw action in Viet Nam

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Apply thoroughly; think through

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

go through; run through; work through

Context example:

We worked through an example

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 3

Meaning:

Eat up completely, as with great appetite

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

consume; demolish; devour; down; go through

Context example:

The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them

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

 Context examples 

You should go back and finish grammar school, and then go through to high school and university.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now let’s go through the month and look at all the aspects.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The Sun has long been known to go through eleven-year cycles of high and low activity, including sunspots, which Strugarek likened to solar volcanoes.

(Sun's mood swings not so strange after all, Wikinews)

Meanwhile, I should like in your presence, Mr. Overton, to go through these papers which have been left upon the table.

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

If I were to go through the world, I could not meet with a better.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Then we shall go through all these together when we meet.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When the cells get to a certain level of damage they go through an aging process of their own, called cellular senescence.

(Scientists Find Natural Product That Slows Aging, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

People who have it go through unusual mood changes.

(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

Herbal medicines do not have to go through the testing that drugs do.

(Herbal Medicine, NIH: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

Your baby will go through many changes during the first year of life.

(Infant and Newborn Care, NIH)