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GO WITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go with mean? 

GO WITH (verb)
  The verb GO WITH has 2 senses:

1. be present or associated with an event or entityplay

2. go or occur togetherplay

  Familiarity information: GO WITH used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GO WITH (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Be present or associated with an event or entity

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

accompany; attach to; come with; go with

Context example:

this kind of vein accompanies certain arteries

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

co-occur with; collocate with; construe with; cooccur with; go with (go or occur together)

attend (to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result)

rule (have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something


Sense 2

Meaning:

Go or occur together

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

co-occur with; collocate with; construe with; cooccur with; go with

Context example:

The word 'hot' tends to cooccur with 'cold'

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

accompany; attach to; come with; go with (be present or associated with an event or entity)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something


 Context examples 


He insists that I shall go with him on another expedition.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I shall get a horse, and ride over tomorrow morning, aunt, unless you will go with me?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And he knew she was his, that all he had to do was to say "Come," and she would go with him over the world wherever he led.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The matter is very important, and the farther I go with it, the more important it seems to grow.

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

She noted his indecision, and added, "Besides, I'll go with you and help."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“I should like to go with you,” was all she said.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I think, if you will have me, that I would rather go with you.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He intended me to go with him to India.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Aunt March went today, for which, oh, be joyful! said Jo. I was mortally afraid she'd ask me to go with her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I desired his leave to go with them, that I might see the country, and make what discoveries I could.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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