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Synonyms & Antonyms of goes
(Entry 1 of 2)
- everything is going according to our plans
Synonyms for goes
- advances,
- comes,
- comes along,
- does,
- fares,
- forges,
- gets along,
- gets on,
- goes along,
- goes off,
- marches,
- paces,
- proceeds,
- progresses
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- will go on vacation at the end of the year
- decided it would be better to go before she got any angrier
Synonyms for goes
- bails,
- bails out,
- books
- [slang],
- buggers off
- [British slang],
- bugs off,
- bugs out,
- buzzes (off),
- clears off
- [chiefly British],
- clears out,
- cuts out,
- departs,
- digs out,
- exits,
- gets,
- gets off,
- goes off,
- moves,
- packs (up or off),
- parts,
- peels off,
- pikes (out or off),
- pulls out,
- pushes off,
- pushes on,
- quits,
- runs along,
- sallies (forth),
- scarpers
- [British],
- shoves (off),
- steps (along),
- takes off,
- vamooses,
- walks out
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- beats it,
- hits the road,
- pulls stakes
- (or pulls up stakes),
- takes a hike
- (also takes a walk),
- takes a powder
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- your account of how the fire started doesn't go with what she said
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- she goes crazy on the dance floor when they start playing 1980s pop
- the room went dark
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- watched the building go after the demolition crew detonated the charges
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- when you get old, your eyesight starts to go
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- I went the length of the street before finding an empty parking space
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- to play in this game of poker, you have to be willing to go at least five dollars per round
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- I didn't go to fire the gun—it just went off
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- we were having so much fun that the evening just came and went
Synonyms for goes
- breaks off,
- breaks up,
- ceases,
- closes,
- concludes,
- dead-ends,
- determines,
- dies,
- discontinues,
- elapses,
- ends,
- expires,
- finishes,
- halts,
- lapses,
- leaves off,
- lets up,
- passes,
- quits,
- stops,
- terminates,
- winds up,
- winks (out)
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- I think I can go for the new car after all
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- I can't go the smell of that rotting food for one more minute
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- her grandmother went peacefully last night
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- bites the dust,
- buys it
- (or buys the farm),
- gives up the ghost,
- kicks the bucket,
- snuffs it
- [British]
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- we tried very hard to get the food cooperative to go, but it never really worked out
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- bombs,
- collapses,
- fails,
- flops,
- flunks,
- folds,
- founders,
- misses,
- strikes out,
- washes out
goes
nounSynonyms of goes (Entry 2 of 2)
- it took several goes to get the car started
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“Goes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goes. Accessed 14 Aug. 2022.
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