GOES Synonyms: 534 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

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present tense third-person singular of go

as in progresses

to move forward along a course everything is going according to our plans

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as in departs

to leave a place often for another will go on vacation at the end of the year decided it would be better to go before she got any angrier

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as in suffices

to be fitting or proper at Mardi Gras, just about anything goes

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as in corresponds

to be in agreement on every point your account of how the fire started doesn't go with what she said

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as in leads

to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction the highway goes right along the river

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as in becomes

to eventually have as a state or quality she goes crazy on the dance floor when they start playing 1980s pop the room went dark

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as in collapses

to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure watched the building go after the demolition crew detonated the charges

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as in belongs

to have or be in a usual or proper place these plates go in this cabinet

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as in fades

to lose bodily strength or vigor when you get old, your eyesight starts to go

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as in follows

to make one's way through, across, or over I went the length of the street before finding an empty parking space

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as in varies

to occur within a continuous range of variation selling prices for houses in that neighborhood generally go between one and two million

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as in puts

to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event to play in this game of poker, you have to be willing to go at least five dollars per round

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as in intends

chiefly Southern & Midland to have in mind as a purpose or goal I didn't go to fire the gun—it just went off

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as in ends

to come to an end we were having so much fun that the evening just came and went

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as in affords

to have enough money for I think I can go for the new car after all

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as in stands

to put up with (something painful or difficult) I can't go the smell of that rotting food for one more minute

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as in dies

to stop living her grandmother went peacefully last night

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as in succeeds

to turn out as planned or desired we tried very hard to get the food cooperative to go, but it never really worked out

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goes

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noun

plural of go

as in tries

an effort to do or accomplish something it took several goes to get the car started

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Recent Examples of goes

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As the story goes, this particular treasure hunter spent several days in those harsh conditions, carefully following a pre-determined grid pattern to ensure every square foot of the desertscape was scanned. —

Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 8 May 2026 The place was an ultra-slick design temple conceived by Ian Schrager and Philippe Starck, and its high-wattage shellac invited a sort of anything-goes naughtiness. —

Nick Remsen, Vogue, 7 May 2026 But 24 goes too far, dilutes the field and hurts the regular season. —

Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026 If all goes well, Snell will be ready to make his season debut and join the Dodgers’ rotation sometime next week (likely during the Freeway Series games in Anaheim). —

Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 7 May 2026 In this Year of the Horse, Elise Taylor goes inside the winter equestrian capital of the world. —

Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 7 May 2026 As the saying goes, anyway, pressure makes diamonds. —

Kansas City Star, 7 May 2026 Hobby-maxxing offers an answer to screen fatigue that doesn’t require quitting technology entirely — just rebalancing where attention goes. —

Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 7 May 2026 The first episode establishes immediately that something is uniquely off about Widow’s Bay, and not just because Shep, a shipman patrolling the waters at night, goes missing, potentially because he’s been taken by a sinister fog. —

Jen Chaney, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026

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Does this mean those pop-goes-punk comp albums are coming back? —

Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026 Except then there’s the chance of being FUNNELED, placed on the rails and headed for a very specific destination, instead of the OPEN-WORLD anything-goes of traditional D&D. —

Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026 The we-might-all-die-if-this-special-effect-goes-wrong stuff. —

Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026 Choose from 21 colors, from goes-with-everything black to standout prints and textures, including holiday-ready velvet or sequins. —

Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2026 Meanwhile, Weaver reminded us of the coat’s versatility while wearing a goes-with-everything matte black version. —

Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 27 Dec. 2025 Like, main-character-walks-in-and-the-crowd-goes-silent energy. —

Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 23 Dec. 2025 These nation-wide country-goes-city celebrations of agricultural bounty, mechanical innovations and skilled handcrafts have been drawing crowds since the first fair was held in upstate New York in 1841. —

Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025

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As the conversation progresses, dialogue options branch in real time as Phaedra shares more intimate details of what she's been going through and how the virus is evolving within her.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 6 May 2026
Dermatologists say that delay is one of the biggest barriers to effective care and one of the main reasons the condition progresses.

— Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 6 May 2026