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went through

went through is the simple past 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 went through

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

Words near went through in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: went 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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