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went towards

went towards is the simple past of go towards.

Meaning of go towards

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To be a contribution to.
    • This money will go towards paying off the debt.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, towards.
    • Your mission is to go towards that canyon.

Questions about went towards

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

Words near went towards in the dictionary

  1. went to water
  2. went to work
  3. went together
  4. went toilet
  5. went too far
  6. went towards
  7. went tutti-frutti
  8. went under
  9. went underground
  10. went up
  11. went up against

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Adapted from Wiktionary: went towards (page history and authors); go towards (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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