go round
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go round (third-person singular simple present goes round, present participle going round, simple past went round, past participle gone round)
- To physically swirl or rotate.
- To rotate, to move in a circle.
- (transitive) To travel around (something) physically.
- (transitive, figurative) To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre.
- (transitive, figurative) To circulate, to move aimlessly.
- To pass around, to circulate.
- They say a new deadly virus is going round in South America.
- (intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
- To go to another person's home or a public event.
- I went round and told him what I thought of him.
- To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification).
- You can't go round stealing from unlocked cars!
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to physically swirl
to rotate
to evade sth.
(fig.) to circulate invisibly
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to pass around (sth.)
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to be sufficient, be enough for everyone
to go to another person's home or to a particular place
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to live behaving in a certain way
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