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go strong

go strong verb: to do well; to succeed.

Verb

go strong (third-person singular simple present goes strong, present participle going strong, simple past went strong, past participle gone strong)

  1. To do well; to succeed.
    • Merry Peal is a very smart mare[…] and Breba reminds us very much of Mendicant, whose owner bred her. Badly as she was cut up in the Oaks, she was going strong and well in the Vase, when she rolled over.1851, Gayhurst, “Olla Podrida”, in Sporting Magazine, volume 18, page 103
    • On the Great North of Scotland section, always a stronghold of four-coupled engines, a great number of small 4-4-0s, some over fifty years old, were still going strong in 1945, but serious inroads are being made into their numbers now.1954 May, John W. Grant, “A Railway Requiem”, in Railway Magazine, page 351

Forms of go strong

third-person singular presentgoes strong
present participlegoing strong
pastwent strong
past participlegone strong

Origin of go strong

Combination of go and strong (adverb). The adverb was formed of Old English strong + -e; compare strongly.

Questions about go strong

What does go strong mean?
Go strong means to do well; to succeed.
What part of speech is go strong?
Go strong is a verb.
What is the past tense of go strong?
The past tense of go strong is went strong.

Words near go strong in the dictionary

  1. go spare
  2. go steady
  3. go stone
  4. go stones
  5. go straight
  6. go strong
  7. go supernova
  8. go team
  9. go teams
  10. go tell your mother she wants you
  11. go the distance

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