go through
verb
went through; gone through; going through; goes through
intransitive verb
1
: to continue firmly or obstinately to the end
I was going through with it if it killed me
A. W. Long
A. W. Long2
a
: to receive approval or sanction : pass
b
: to come to a desired or satisfactory conclusion
Word History
First Known Use
1513, in the meaning defined at sense 1
going through
phrase
1
as in undergoing
to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it I know how that feels because I've gone through it. Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- undergoing
- experiencing
- enduring
- having
- seeing
- suffering
- feeling
- sustaining
- knowing
- witnessing
- passing
- receiving
- tasting
- meeting
- encountering
- accepting
- assimilating
- digesting
2
as in fulfilling
to carry through (as a process) to completion He'd recently gone through the process of obtaining a driver's license. Synonyms & Similar Words
- fulfilling
- performing
- carrying out
- accomplishing
- executing
- achieving
- putting through
- pulling off
- carrying off
- doing
- making
- implementing
- following through (with)
- bringing off
- bringing about
- prosecuting
- committing
- negotiating
- perpetrating
- completing
- finishing
- compassing
- realizing
- winding up
- effecting
- engaging (in)
- working (at)
- effectuating
- practicing
- attaining
- acing
- ending
- repeating
- nailing
- reenacting
- actualizing
- practising
- reduplicating
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- failing
- slurring
- slighting
- skimping
3
as in going over
to use the mind to acquire knowledge They went through the lesson several times. Synonyms & Similar Words
- going over
- studying
- boning (up)
- researching
- learning
- finding out
- reading
- analyzing
- memorizing
- deducing
- understanding
- swotting
- conning
- grinding
- knowing
- cramming
- restudying
- apprehending
- digesting
- comprehending
- grasping
- absorbing
- inaptness
- inaptnesses
- inarch
- inarched
- inarches
- inarching
- inarguable
- inarguably
- inarmed
- inarming
- inarms
- inarticulable
- inarticulacies
- inarticulacy
- Inarticulata
- inarticulate
- inarticulately
- inarticulateness
- inarticulatenesses
- inarticulates
- inartificial
- inartificially
- inartistic
- inartistically
- inasmuch as