go with

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, with.

“You have to go with your feelings.”

Meanings

verbgo with (third-person singular simple present goes with, present participle going with, simple past went with, past participle gone with)

present singular third person goes with · participle present going with · past went with · participle past gone with

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, with.
  2. idiomatictransitiveTo choose or accept (a suggestion).

    You have to go with your feelings.

    1 more example

    Although I liked your suggestion, I'll go with my original idea.

    Synonyms: pick, select

  3. idiomatictransitiveTo date, to be involved romantically with (someone).

    Synonyms: go out with, go steady, date, go out [with], go together, hang together, have a thing, see

  4. idiomatictransitiveTo have sexual relations with (someone).

    Synonyms: be with, go to bed with, lie with, sleep with, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize

  5. transitiveTo correspond or fit well with, to match.

    Does this red skirt go with this pink blouse?

    Synonyms: harmonize, match, tone in

  6. obsoletetransitiveTo be pregnant with (a child).

    The fruit she goes with, / I pray for heartily, that it may find / Good time, and live.

    c. 1613, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry VIII, act 5, scene 1
    5 more examples

    When the woman is come to the ninth Moneth, having beene in good health all the time of her going with child: she must continue the use of the aforesaid Ointments, and must begin to use more exercise than she did before, walking gently before meales the first twelve or fifteene daies; and then afterward it will be good to use stronger exercise.

    1635, Jacques Guillemeau, Child-birth; Or, The Happy Delivery of Women, page 30

    But it seems reasonable that in the particular case where the question is, whether a Child be legitimate or not; the doubt arising from this, that the Child's birth is either too forward, or too backward, we should join to the common Rules which result from the Texts quoted on this Article, as to what concerns the time of a Woman's going with Child, the consideration of the particular circumstances, in order to decide wisely and prudently a question of so great consequence, in which the honour of a Mother, the state of a Child, and the quiet of the Families, which have an interest both in the one and the other, are all equally concerned.

    1722, Jean Domat, The Civil Law in Its Natural Order: Together with the Public Law, page 647

    The time of pregnancy, of the Lioness' going with young, as the keepers inform me, is four months.

    1727 August 8, R. Bradley, letter

    This is the Sixth Month with her that was called barren; which leads us to Feb. 9th; and the Nine months, of the Virgin's going with Child, will unavoidably bring us to Nov. 9th.

    1731, John Barnard, The Certainty, Time, and End, of the Birth of Our Lord, page 64

    Hoffman says, the usual Time is nine solar Months; and Juncker, that Excretions from the Uterus being by women referred to certain lunar Phases, they reckon their going with Child by the Weeks, and that they usually exclude the Foetus forty Weeks from the Time of their being with Child, commonly on that very Day they were used to have their Menses.

    1765, Richard Brookes, The General Practice of Physic, page 251

    Synonyms: carry, eat for two, carry, eat for two, expect, have a bun in the oven

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo choose or accept (a suggestion).

Similar

verbTo date, to be involved romantically with (someone).

verbTo correspond or fit well with, to match.

verbTo be pregnant with (a child).

More synonyms by meaning

verbbe present or associated with an event or entity

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Broader

verbgo or occur together

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collocate withconstrue withcooccur withco-occur with
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Dutch passen bij
  • passen bijmatch, correspond with
Finnish sopia
  • sopiamatch, correspond with
German passen zu
  • passen zumatch, correspond with
Greek ταιριάζω
  • ταιριάζω (tairiázo)match, correspond with
Hungarian megy
  • megymatch, correspond with
Polish pasować
  • pasowaćmatch, correspond with
Russian подходи́ть, подойти́
  • подходи́ть (podxodítʹ)match, correspond with
  • подойти́ (podojtí)match, correspond with
Spanish combinar, ir de la mano con
  • combinarmatch, correspond with
  • ir de la mano conmatch, correspond with
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