86 Phrasal Verbs with GO: Go on, Go off, Go down, Go out... • 7ESL

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Phrasal verbs with GO! Learn go after meaning, go against meaning, go ahead meaning, go around meaning, go back meaning, go down meaning, go on meaning, go out meaning, go up meaning, go through meaning…with examples and ESL pictures.

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Phrasal Verbs with GO

List of 86 useful phrasal verbs with GO in English.

Go after Meaning & Examples

Go after

Meaning: Pursue in an attempt to catch another
Example: Go after him and apologize.

Go after

Meaning: Pursue an object or a goal
Example: Inspired, the scientist went right after the new idea.

Go against Meaning & Examples

Go against

Meaning: Violate; to breach; to break
Example: What he did goes against the rules.

Go against

Meaning: Be unfavourable to someone
Example: The court’s decision went against them.

Go against

Meaning: Be contrary to a trend, feeling or principle
Example: This goes against my instincts.

Go against

Meaning: Oppose; to resist
Example: He dared not go against the King.

Go ahead, Go all out, Go along Meaning & Examples

Go ahead

Meaning: Proceed; to begin
Example: Go ahead and eat without me; I expect to be very late.

Go all out

Meaning: Reserve nothing; to put forth all possible effort or resources
Example: They went all out for his eightieth birthday party and chartered a tour boat on the bay.

Go along

Meaning: Participate, cooperate, or conform
Example: I refuse to go along with another of his dangerous schemes.

Go around, Go at Meaning & Examples

Go around

Meaning: Move or spread from person to person
Example: There’s a cough going around.

Go around

Meaning: Share with everyone
Example: There’s plenty of fish to go around.

Go at

Meaning: Try to solve a problem a specific way; to undertake a task
Example: I went at the issue for hours but could not come up with a way around it.

Go away Meaning & Examples

Go away

Meaning: Depart or leave a place
Example: I’m not going to buy it. Please go away and don’t come back.

Go away

Meaning: Travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation
Example: Are you going away this year?

Go away

Meaning: Become invisible, vanish or disappear
Example: This cold just won’t go away.

Go back, Go below Meaning & Examples

Go back

Meaning: Abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something
Example: You promised me that you’d pay up today, no going back on your word.

Go below

Meaning: Go below deck on a ship; to leave the top deck of a ship
Example: The weather’s getting bad; you had better go below!

Go by Meaning & Examples

Go by

Meaning: Pass or go past without much interaction
Example: I like to sit and watch the world go by.

Go by

Meaning: Be called, to use as a name
Example: His full name is Ernest Tinkleton, but he goes by Ernie.

Go by

Meaning: Follow; to assume as true for the purposes of making a decision, taking an action, etc.
Example: I’m only going by what my teacher said.

Go down Meaning & Examples

Go down

Meaning: Descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one
Example: You’ll need to go down two floors to get to that office.

Go down

Meaning: Disappear below the horizon; to set
Example: It’ll be cooler once the sun goes down.

Go down

Meaning: Decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one
Example: The unemployment rate has gone down significantly in recent months.

Go down

Meaning: Fall (down), fall to the floor
Example: The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin.

Go down

Meaning: Be received or accepted
Example: The news didn’t go down well with her parents.

Go down

Meaning: Be recorded or remembered (as)
Example: Today will go down as a monumental failure.

Go down

Meaning: Take place, happen
Example: A big heist went down yesterday by the docks.

Go down

Meaning: Perform oral sex
Example: He felt nervous about going down on his girlfriend for the first time.

Go down

Meaning: Stop functioning, to go offline
Example: Did the server just go down again? We’ll have to reboot it.

Go for Meaning & Examples

Go for

Meaning: Try for, to attempt to reach
Example: I’ll go for the world record.

Go for

Meaning: Undertake (an action)
Example: His phone was off so I couldn’t ask his permission, so I decided to just go for it.

Go for

Meaning: Attack
Example: Careful, he’ll go for your throat!

Go for

Meaning: Develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with
Example: Clyde took one look at Bonnie and really went for her.

Go for

Meaning: Favor, accept
Example: Management won’t go for such a risky project now.

Go for

Meaning: Apply equally to
Example: Stop taking my food from the fridge! That goes for you too, Nick!

Go for it

Meaning: Put maximum effort into achieving something
Example: He really went for it.

Go for it

Meaning: Decide to do something; especially after a period of hesitation
Example: May I use your bathroom? ― Go for it!

Go in, Go into Meaning & Examples

Go in

Meaning: Be obscured by clouds
Example: It’s chilly now the sun’s gone in.

Go into

Meaning: Get involved in; to investigate or explore
Example: I don’t want to go into the details now.

Go into

Meaning: Divide exactly; to be a factor of
Example: 11 goes into 88 and 99 but not 100.

Go off Meaning & Examples

Go off

Meaning: Explode
Example: The bomb went off right after the president left his office.

Go off

Meaning: Fire, especially accidentally
Example: The gun went off during their struggle.

Go off

Meaning: Explode metaphorically; to become very angry
Example: When the boss came to know about the scheme, he went off, shouting and throwing everything away.

Go off

Meaning: Begin clanging or making noise
Example: The alarm will go off at six a.m.

Go off

Meaning: Depart; to leave
Example: He went off without a word.

Go off

Meaning: Like less
Example: Ever since falling off my bike, she’s gone off cycling to work.

Go on Meaning & Examples

Go on

Meaning: Continue in extent
Example: The meeting seemed to go on forever.

Go on

Meaning: Continue an action
Example: I think I’ve said enough now; I’m not sure I should go on.

Go on

Meaning: Proceed
Example: He went on to win a gold medal.

Go on

Meaning: Talk about a subject frequently or at great length
Example: Will you stop going on about your stupid holiday.

Go on

Meaning: Use and adopt (information) in order to understand an issue, make a decision, etc.
Example: I didn’t make a decision because I didn’t have anything to go on.

Go on

Meaning: Happen (occur)
Example: What’s going on?!

Go out Meaning & Examples

Go out

Meaning: Leave, especially a building
Example: Please go out through the back door.

Go out

Meaning: Leave one’s abode to go to public places
Example: They were going to stay in and read, but instead went out shopping.

Go out

Meaning: Be eliminated from a competition
Example: Our team went out in the third round.

Go out

Meaning: Be turned off or extinguished
Example: The lights went out.

Go out

Meaning: Discard or meld all the cards in one’s hand
Example: Leon made two canastas, then went out by melding treys.

Go out

Meaning: Become out of fashion
Example: He thought Nehru jackets went out in the late seventies.

Go out

Meaning: Have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates
Example: They’ve been going out for three years now, but still live apart.

Go out

Meaning: Fail
Example: I’d like to help clear the field, but my knee went out on me.

Go out

Meaning: Spend the last moments of a show (while playing something)
Example: Thank you for introducing us to your new album. Which song should we go out on?

Go over, Go so far as Meaning & Examples

Go over

Meaning: Look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze
Example: Please go over the reports to make sure we haven’t missed anything.

Go over

Meaning: Create a response or impression
Example: Playing a radio in the office did not go over well with his coworkers.

Go so far as

Meaning: Reach an unexpected extent in doing something
Example: I know he suffered from depression, but surely he wouldn’t go so far as to kill himself?

Go through, Go through with Meaning & Examples

Go through

Meaning: Travel from one end of something to the other
Example: The train went through the tunnel.

Go through

Meaning: Examine or scrutinize (a number or series of things), especially in a regular order
Example: Every morning, she went through her mail over a cup of coffee.

Go through

Meaning: Undergo, suffer, experience
Example: She’s yet to go through puberty, although she’s already 17.

Go through

Meaning: Wear out (clothing etc. )
Example: I’ve gone through two pairs of shoes already this holiday.

Go through

Meaning: Progress to the next stage of something
Example: If United don’t lose by more than 2 goals, they should go through to the next round.

Go through

Meaning: Reach an intended destination after passing through some process
Example: My payment hasn’t gone through yet.

Go through with

Meaning: Carry out (something planned or promised)
Example: If you decide to go through with the surgery, remember to leave time to recover.

Go to, Go towards Meaning & Examples

Go to

Meaning: Attend an event or a sight
Example: We went to a concert for my birthday.

Go to

Meaning: Attend classes at a school as a student
Example: He went to the University of Kansas for almost two years before he dropped out.

Go to

Meaning: Tend to support
Example: The study goes to the point I was making earlier about subsidies.

Go towards

Meaning: Be a contribution to
Example: This money will go towards paying off the debt.

Go under Meaning & Examples

Go under

Meaning: Descend into a body of water; to founder
Example: The boat was too heavy and went under.

Go under

Meaning: Collapse or fail, e.g. by going bankrupt
Example: In the crisis, the company was forced to reduce its costs in order to avoid going under.

Go under