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Definition of "go round" []

  • To physically swirl or rotate. (verb)
  • To rotate (verb)
  • To pass, go to the other side of something (verb)
  • To go to another person's home. (verb)
  • To be sufficient, be enough (verb)

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Use "go round" in a sentence
  • "Soon the sound of Old Pretty's milk fizzing into the pail came through the hedge, and then Angel felt inclined to go round the corner also, to finish off a hard-yielding milcher who had strayed there, he being now as capable of this as the dairyman himself."
  • "Although Admiral Lyon had been told to assume that the raider would not go round the Cape into the Indian Ocean, and as there were clear indications from the positions radioed by the Doric Star and Tairoa that she was moving westward, the First Sea Lord was taking no chances, and the Admiralty ordered the Cornwall and Gloucester and the carrier Eagle, in the Indian Ocean, to establish a new patrol off the Cape."
  • "To reach the wool-shed and escape the notice of the rest of the party in the garden, you would have had to go round about, either through the house or by way of the side lawn and the yards at the back."