go round

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

go round (third-person singular simple present goes round, present participle going round, simple past went round, past participle gone round)

  1. To physically swirl or rotate.
  2. To rotate, to move in a circle.
  3. (transitive) To travel around (something) physically.
  4. (transitive, figurative) To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre.
  5. (transitive, figurative) To circulate, to move aimlessly.
  6. To pass around, to circulate.
    They say a new deadly virus is going round in South America.
  7. (intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
  8. To go to another person's home or a public event.
    I went round and told him what I thought of him.
  9. To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification).
    You can't go round stealing from unlocked cars!

Derived terms

[edit]

Translations

[edit]

See also

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]