go

verb (BE)

/ɡəʊ/

/ɡoʊ/ (present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone)

Definition

› [L only + adj] to be or stay in a particular, especially unpleasant, condition: In spite of the relief effort, thousands of people continue to go hungry. Why do so many rapes go unreported?Keeping and staying the sameNot able to be changed as...go › in comparison with most other things of a particular type, especially when you do not think that type of thing is very good: It was quite a good film, as horror films go. I suppose the concert was OK, as these things go.Quite good, or not very goodSuitable and acceptable go to prove/show › to prove that something is true: Your daughter's attitude only goes to prove how much society has changed over the last 30 years.Proving and disproving

(Definition of go verb (BE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)