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go for sb

Phrasal Verb with go
 
 
/gəʊ/ verb [I] (present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone)

Definition

to attack someone: He suddenly went for me with a knife.
(Definition of go for sb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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