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follow

 
/ˈfɑl·oʊ/ v [I/T] (MOVE AFTER)

Definition

to move along after someone or something, or to move along a route or path: [T] The dog followed us home. [I] He drove ahead and we followed in our own car. [T] Follow this road for the next two miles. To follow someone is also to move along after a person in order to watch where that person is going: [T] She had the feeling she was being followed.
(Definition of follow v (MOVE AFTER) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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