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- what's the going price for a good used washing machine?
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- he just can't keep his small bookstore going
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- active,
- alive,
- functional,
- functioning,
- live,
- living,
- on,
- operating,
- operational,
- operative,
- running,
- working
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- our continued partnership with them is a going concern
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- in clover
- (also in the clover)
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going
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of going (Entry 2 of 3)
- tried to get down the hill quickly, but it was slow going with an injured foot
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- was so absorbed in her TV show she didn't notice his comings or goings
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going
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of going (Entry 3 of 3)
- everything is going according to our plans
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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
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- bailing,
- bailing out,
- booking
- [slang],
- buggering off
- [British slang],
- bugging off,
- bugging out,
- buzzing (off),
- clearing off
- [chiefly British],
- clearing out,
- cutting out,
- departing,
- digging out,
- exiting,
- getting,
- getting off,
- going off,
- moving,
- packing (up or off),
- parting,
- peeling off,
- piking (out or off),
- pulling out,
- pushing off,
- pushing on,
- quitting,
- running along,
- sallying (forth),
- scarpering
- [British],
- shoving (off),
- stepping (along),
- taking off,
- vamoosing,
- walking out
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- absconding,
- decamping,
- escaping,
- evacuating,
- fleeing,
- flying,
- getting out,
- mizzling
- [chiefly British],
- running away,
- scatting,
- scramming,
- skipping
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- at Mardi Gras, just about anything goes
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- your account of how the fire started doesn't go with what she said
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- according,
- agreeing,
- answering,
- checking,
- chording,
- cohering,
- coinciding,
- comporting,
- conforming,
- consisting,
- corresponding,
- dovetailing,
- fitting,
- harmonizing,
- jibing,
- rhyming
- (also riming),
- sorting,
- squaring,
- tallying
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- equaling
- (or equalling),
- matching,
- paralleling
- aligning
- (also alining),
- lining up,
- registering
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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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- these plates go in this cabinet
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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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- selling prices for houses in that neighborhood generally go between one and two million
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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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- aiming,
- allowing
- [chiefly Southern & Midland],
- aspiring,
- calculating,
- contemplating,
- designing,
- intending,
- looking,
- meaning,
- meditating,
- planning,
- proposing,
- purporting,
- purposing
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- we were having so much fun that the evening just came and went
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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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- abiding,
- absorbing,
- accepting,
- bearing,
- biding
- [chiefly dialect],
- brooking,
- countenancing,
- enduring,
- hacking,
- handling,
- meeting,
- pocketing,
- standing,
- sticking out,
- stomaching,
- supporting,
- sustaining,
- sweating out,
- taking,
- tolerating,
- wearing
- [British]
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- her grandmother went peacefully last night
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- checking out,
- conking (out),
- croaking
- [slang],
- deceasing,
- demising,
- departing,
- dropping,
- dying,
- ending,
- exiting,
- expiring,
- falling,
- flatlining,
- kicking in
- [slang],
- kicking off
- [slang],
- parting,
- passing away,
- passing (on),
- pegging out
- [chiefly British],
- perishing,
- popping off,
- stepping out,
- succumbing
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- biting the dust,
- buying it
- (or buying the farm),
- giving up the ghost,
- kicking the bucket,
- snuffing it
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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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The first known use of going was in the 14th century
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