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go around (enc)

Go Around

Verb1.go around - be sufficient; "There's not enough to go around"
suffice, answer, do, serve - be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity; "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do?"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"; "Nothing else will serve"
2.go around - become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office"
disseminate, pass around, circulate, diffuse, broadcast, circularise, circularize, disperse, spread, propagate, distribute - cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"
3.go around - go around the flank of (an opposing army)
go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"
4.go around - turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
drive in, screw - cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion; "drive in screws or bolts"
screw - turn like a screw
circumvolve, rotate - cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"
wheel, wheel around - change directions as if revolving on a pivot; "They wheeled their horses around and left"
spin, spin around, gyrate, reel, whirl - revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
swirl, twiddle, twirl, whirl - turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"
turn - move around an axis or a center; "The wheels are turning"
5.go around - avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!"
avoid - stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"

 

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