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Go around   /goʊ ərˈaʊnd/   Listen
Go around

verb
1.
Be sufficient.
2.
Become widely known and passed on.  Synonyms: circulate, spread.  "The story went around in the office"
3.
Go around the flank of (an opposing army).  Synonym: outflank.
4.
Turn on or around an axis or a center.  Synonyms: revolve, rotate.  "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
5.
Avoid something unpleasant or laborious.  Synonyms: bypass, get around, short-circuit.






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"Go around" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Go around here," replied Jackson, as with his finger he traced a line on the map which encircled the whole right wing of ...
— This Country Of Ours • H. E. Marshall Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

... "Do let us go around by the boundary," Miss Lutworth said when they got through the Wendover gates. "I long to see even the park of that exquisite old lady; it must look quite different to anybody else's, and I feel I ...
— Halcyone • Elinor Glyn

... breeches. "Not much doin' at this time of day. The girls in school or helping with the housework; the boys in the mines. Don't step out till after supper. Then look out! The young bucks shake a heel and the girls put on their lipstick. Them that can't afford a permanent go around all day with their hair done up in curlycues till they look a match for Shirley Temple by the time they get here of a night. Times ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas

... anybody but himself liked corn he was sure to be spiteful towards him. You might have thought, from the way Mr. Crow acted, that Farmer Green didn't raise enough corn to go around. ...
— The Tale of Bobby Bobolink - Tuck-me-In Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey

... pretty good, and I don't go around with them shut all the time," began Walter hotly, ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely


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