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goes through

goes through is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go through.

Meaning of go through

Verb

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

  1. (literally) To travel from one end of something to the other.
    • The train went through the tunnel.
  2. To execute or carry out.
    • They went through the process step by step and ended up with Beef Wellingtom.
  3. (transitive) To examine or scrutinize (a number or series of things).
    • Every morning, she went through her mail over a cup of coffee.
  4. (dated, slang) To rob (someone), especially after searching through their clothes.
  5. (transitive) To enact or recite the entire length of (something).
    • Juve’s indignities in that period also featured a sending-off for Juan Cuadrado, one of their substitutes, and a late goal from Marco Asensio when the thousands of Madridistas were already going through their victory songs.2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juve”, in The Guardian (London)
  6. (transitive) To undergo, suffer, experience.
    • I went through a lengthy immigration process before I was allowed across the border.

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Questions about goes through

What is goes through the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Goes through is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go through.

Words near goes through in the dictionary

  1. goes the way of the dodo bird
  2. goes the whole hog
  3. goes the whole pile
  4. goes their separate ways
  5. goes there
  6. goes through
  7. goes through fire and water
  8. goes through hell
  9. goes through hoops
  10. goes through the attitudes
  11. goes through the gears

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goes through (page history and authors); go through (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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