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go
verb [I] (TIME) /ɡəʊ/
/ɡoʊ/ (present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone)Definition
(Definition of go verb (TIME) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- About to happen
- Always & never
- At the right time
- Coming to an end
- Continually & repeatedly
- Continue & last
- Continuous & permanent
- Days & times of day
- Days, & parts of the week
- Decades, centuries & the millennium
- Describing age & birthdays
- Describing people who are old
- Describing people who are young
- Describing when something happened or will happen
- Early
- Finished & over
- Frequency & regularity - general words
- Immediately
- In the future & soon
- In the past
- Lasting for a long time
- Late
- Long periods of time
- Modern & fashionable
- Names of months
- New
- Now
- Old or old-fashioned
- Pauses & interludes
- Periods of time - general words
- Physically and mentally mature & immature
- Points in time
- Rarely & infrequently
- Relating to regular periods of time
- Relating to time
- Schedules & agendas
- Short in time
- Specific periods of time
- Stages & phases
- Stages of life
- Temporary
- The seasons
- Turning points & deciding moments
- Until a particular moment
- Watches & clocks
- Years & yearly
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Synonyms and related words:
- all the time in the world idiom
- course noun (DEVELOPMENT)
- elapse verb
- employ verb (SPEND TIME)
- fall away phrasal verb (TIME)
- go by phrasal verb
- misspend verb
- Old Father Time noun
- pass verb (GO PAST)
- pass verb (TIME)
- run out phrasal verb
- serve verb (SPEND TIME)
- spread sth over sth phrasal verb
- the sands of time are running out idiom
- tick away/by phrasal verb
- time and tide wait for no man idiom
- time's a great healer idiom
- timekeeper noun
- wear on phrasal verb
- while sth away phrasal verb
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