go through sth
— phrasal verb with go uk/ɡəʊ/us/ɡoʊ/verb present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone
(EXPERIENCE)
B2 to experience a difficult or unpleasant situation:
I've been going through a bad patch recently.
You'd think his children would be more sympathetic towards him after all he's gone through (= the many bad things he has experienced).
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- She's gone through a lot in order to achieve what she has.
- He went through a difficult spell when he lost his job.
- It's just a phase she's going through.
- I apologize for what you had to go through.
- I don't know how he goes through that ordeal every day.
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Experiencing and suffering
- afflict
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- get/have your fingers burned idiom
- grip
- hands-on
- hold
- hold on
- ride
- run into sth
- sample
- seat
- sense
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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(EXAMINE)
B2 to examine something that contains a collection of things carefully in order to organize them or find something:
I'm going through my wardrobe and throwing out all the clothes I don't wear any more.
Remember to go through the pockets before you put those trousers in the washing machine.
More examples
- "I can't find my keys." "Have you gone through your jacket pockets?"
- Would you mind if we went through your pockets?
- I don't like to go through other people's drawers.
- We went through all the cupboards and drawers and found things we hadn't seen for years.
- She's going through all the drawers, looking for a pen.
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Analysing and evaluating
- analyse
- analyser
- analyst
- analytical
- analyze
- critical
- have the measure of sb/sth idiom
- inspect
- inspection
- interpretive
- investigate
- measure
- proof
- set great, little, etc. store by sth idiom
- sift
- sit
- sit in judgment on/over sb idiom
- size sth/sb up
- store
- survey
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(PRACTISE)
to do something in order to practise or as a test:
Why don't we go through the whole demonstration once more?
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Repeating an action
- bring
- bring sth back
- circle
- come/go/turn full circle idiom
- comeback
- do sth over
- eye
- keep on doing sth
- keep your eye in idiom
- performance
- practice
- practise
- repeat
- revert to sth
- revisit
- there you go again idiom
- warm
- warm sth over
- warmed-over
- wave
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(USE)
to use a lot of something:
Before I gave up coffee, I was drinking five cups a day.
I went through a hundred quid on my last trip to London.
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Using and misusing
- adopt
- adoption
- advantage
- avail
- avail yourself of sth
- be/go heavy on sth idiom
- go into sth
- gobble sth up
- heavy
- make capital out of sth idiom
- max
- max sth out
- mine
- upcycle
- upcycling
- usable
- usage
- use
- use sth up
- wear
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