go through
phrasal verbgo through
- if a law, contract, etc. goes through, it is officially accepted or completed
- The deal did not go through.
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go through something
- 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.
- 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?
- to perform a series of actions; to follow a method or procedure
- Certain formalities have to be gone through before you can emigrate.
- 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.
- to use up or finish something completely
- The boys went through two whole loaves of bread.