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Definition of go through phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

go through

phrasal verb
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go through
  1. if a law, contract, etc. goes through, it is officially accepted or completed
    • The deal did not go through.
go through something
  1.  
     to look at or examine something carefully, especially in order to find something
    • She went through the company's accounts, looking for evidence of fraud.
  2.  
     to study or consider something in detail, especially by repeating it
    • Let's go through the arguments again.
    • Could we go through (= practise) Act 2 once more?
  3.  
     to perform a series of actions; to follow a method or procedure
    • Certain formalities have to be gone through before you can emigrate.
  4.  
     to experience or suffer something
    • She's been going through a bad patch recently.
    • He's amazingly cheerful considering all he's had to go through.
  5. to use up or finish something completely
    • The boys went through two whole loaves of bread.
See go through in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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