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went the route

went the route is the simple past of go the route.

Meaning of go the route

Verb

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

  1. To pitch for an entire game, without a relief pitcher.
    • It was like old times: Grove, Earnshaw, and Walberg went the route seven times in the next 13 games.2015, Norman L. Macht, The Grand Old Man of Baseball

Questions about went the route

What is went the route the simple past of?
Went the route is the simple past of go the route.

Words near went the route in the dictionary

  1. went supernova
  2. went the distance
  3. went the entire animal
  4. went the entire swine
  5. went the extra mile
  6. went the route
  7. went the way of
  8. went the way of all the earth
  9. went the way of the dinosaurs
  10. went the way of the dodo
  11. went the way of the dodo bird

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