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Synonyms for go after
go af·ter
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
go after
Anything that comes after or goes after another, either in space or in time, is said to follow it. A servant follows or attends his master; a victorious general may follow the retiring enemy merely to watch and hold him in check; he chases or pursues with intent to overtake and attack; the chase is closer and hotter than the pursuit. (Compare synonyms for HUNT.) One event may follow another either with or without special connection; if it ensues, there is some orderly connection; as, the ensuing year; if it results from another, there is some relation of effect, consequence, or inference. A clerk observes his employer's directions. A child obeys his parent's commands, follows or copies his example, imitates his speech and manners. The compositor follows copy; the incoming succeeds the outgoing official.
Synonyms:
accompany, attend, chase, come after, copy, ensue, follow, heed, imitate, obey, observe, practise, pursue, result, succeed
Princeton's WordNet
chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, trackverb
go after with the intent to catch
"The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"
Synonyms:
give chase, quest for, traverse, pass over, chase after, cut through, cover, shack, chamfer, mark, get over, chase, drop back, cut across, tail, furrow, get across, trail, train, bob, get behind, label, dog, track, pursue, cross, tag, quest after, drag, dock, hang back, drop behindquest for, go after, quest after, pursueverb
go in search of or hunt for
"pursue a hobby"
Synonyms:
give chase, act on, prosecute, chase after, follow up on, quest for, chase, dog, tail, engage, follow, trail, quest after, track, pursue, tag
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#611 | result | |
#701 | track | |
#834 | mark | |
#846 | cover | |
#1016 | copy | |
#1047 | dog | |
#1083 | cross | |
#1164 | follow | |
#1923 | bob | |
#1971 | label | |
#2454 | tag | |
#2505 | train | |
#3242 | trail | |
#3607 | attend | |
#5752 | chase | |
#5936 | tail | |
#6220 | engage | |
#6613 | drag | |
#7546 | pursue | |
#7561 | succeed | |
#7591 | observe | |
#8897 | dock | |
#12721 | accompany | |
#14320 | obey | |
#14558 | shack | |
#16278 | traverse | |
#19286 | practise | |
#23715 | heed | |
#24818 | prosecute | |
#32164 | imitate | |
#47000 | furrow | |
#48782 | ensue | |
#123195 | chamfer |
How to use go after in a sentence?
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
They drove away as they were being shot at. After she realized the children were injured, she stopped and called 911.
It is associated with near elimination of both low and high-grade cervical disease in young Scottish women eight years after the vaccine program started, the figures are impressive and show a reduction of up to 90 percent of cervical disease abnormalities - pre-cancerous cells.
Our research shows that the two eating behaviors are independently linked with poorer outcomes after a heart attack, but having a cluster of bad habits will only make things worse, people who work late may be particularly susceptible to having a late supper and then not being hungry in the morning, he continued, adding that.
In the medical world, acute illnesses usually mean a week to two weeks of illness. Subacute means anywhere from two to four weeks and chronic means anything from four to six weeks on that is persistent, so, the chronic long Covid symptoms are usually people that don't return to their baseline or close to their baseline after the initial infection -- and being able to diagnose long Covid is quite difficult.
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