Go After

Definition: Go After

Go After

Verb

1. Go after with the intent to catch.

2. Go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Go After

Posteriority

Verb: follow; after, come after, go after; succeed, supervene; ensue, occur; step into the shoes of.

Sequence

Verb: follow; pursue; go after, fly after.

Crosswords: Go After

Yeah! See something you want, go after it and get it! (A Letter to Three Wives; writing credit: Vera Caspary and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. based on the novel 'Letter to Five Wives' by John Klempner.)

Lucky the elephant didn't go after anyone else! (Mary Tyler Moore; writing credit: Harold Jacob Smith)

And that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit 'em, but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote)

Only a loser would go after his best friend's girlfriend! (Never Among Friends; writing credit: Jason M. Allentoff; Roger Troy Schneider)

Shouldn't we go after them? (Kim Possible; writing credit: Julie DuFine; Madellaine Paxson)

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Books

• Where Do You Go After You'Ve Been to the Moon: A Case Study of Nasa's Pioneer Effort at Change (Orbit Series Book) (reference)

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I've got two of 'em against me and I don't know which one to go after. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I do not learn that the Indians ever troubled themselves to go after it.

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Economic History

Russia

This is a recent rule designed to go after schemes using off-shore front companies. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "go after": go after smth. ♦ go after women. Additional references.

Albanian

kërkoj (aim, apply, arrogate, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, comb, cost, crave, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, feel, fish for, fossick, inquire, look, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لاحق (chase, follow, follow in his footsteps, follow up, following, give chase, hunt, later, posterior, prosecute, pursue, run after, run at smb., stalk, subsequent, tag, track), ‏تبع (dangle, direct, follow, succeed, supervene, tread, tread on smb.'s heels), ‏طارد (bouncer, chase, course, dog, evictor, expeller, fly, give chase, hound, hunt, prosecute, pursue, repellent, run, run down, want), ‏إقتفى (quarter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

търся (ask for, grope, hunt, hunt up, look about, look for, look up, nose, prospect, quest, root about, scavenge, scratch around, search after, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, skirmish), тичам (chase, course, leg it, lick, race, run, run about, scamper about, scurry, skitter, tear, tear along), последвам (be the result of, ensue, follow, result, supervene). (various references)

Czech

usilovat o (aim at smth., seek for, stand out, urge), snažit se získat, pronásledovat (chase, give chase, haunt, hound, persecute, pursue, run, vex, victimize), následovat (ensue, follow, follow on, succeed, take after). (various references)

French

suivre (go by), poursuivre (go ahead, go on), passer après, chasser (go gunning for). (various references)

German

nachlaufen (dangle after, pursue), nachgehen (follow, follow up, investigate, lose, ply, pursue, retrace, see into), nachfahren. (various references)

Greek 

πάω από πίσω. (various references)

Hebrew 

ללכת אחרי, לר�"וף (be after someone, chase, dog, give chase, haunt, hound, hunt down, persecute, pursue). (various references)

Hungarian

valami után jár, utánamegy. (various references)

Indonesian

mencari (hunt for, look for, quest, seek). (various references)

Manx

shirrey (apply, cast about, endeavour, prospect, request, require, search, seek, seeking, solicit, solicitation, soliciting), roie ny yei (run after). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogay afteray

Portuguese

seguir (accompany, adopt, course, deduce, follow, following, get after, go ahead, heel, keep on, proceed, profess, pursue, run, spin, track, trail), ir atrás de (follow, pursue). (various references)

Romanian

urmãri (aim, chase, dog, drive, follow, follow out, give chase, go for, haunt, hound, Hunt, intend, look at, make after, Mark, obsess, pursue, run, run after, seek after, strive after, trace, track, watch), merge în urmã (follow), imita (ape, copy, counterfeit, echo, follow, forge, imitate, mimic, parody, pattern after, simulate). (various references)

Russian 

преследовать (be on the track of, chase, course, ghost, give chase, obsess, persecute, pursue, victimize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slediti (follow, freeze, succeed, track). (various references)

Spanish

seguir (chase, come after, continue, follow, go in for, go off, go on, hold, keep, keep on, keep track of, keep up, keep up with, proceed, pursue, run, shadow, tail, take, to follow, trace), perseguir (chase, chivvy, dog, dragoon, follow, follow up, get after, gun for, harass, haunt, hound, Hunt, hunt down, importune, lock on, obsess, persecute, prosecute, pursue, set after, trace, tracking), cazar (bag, catch out, chase, Chevy, get, gun, hunt, prowl, pursue, shoot), buscar (ferret, fetch, forage for, get, home in on, Hunt, hunt for, hunt out, hunt up, investigate, lay hold of, look, look for, look out, look out for, look round, look up, pick, pick up, prospect for, pursue, quest, scout for, scrounge around for, search, search after, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, take, to look for, turn up), andar tras. (various references)

Turkish

peşinden gitmek (string along), peşinde olmak (aspire, chase, pursue, seek after, seek for), çabalamak (endeavor, endeavour, exert oneself, go for, hump oneself, scramble, strain, strain at, strive, struggle, study, tug, work). (various references)

Ukrainian

домагатися (aim, angle, aspire, busk, canvass, come after, covet, cry for, exact, get, hunt for, obtain, pursue, solicit, woo). (various references)

exsecuti, exsecutores. (various references)

purchaser. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fagoter.

-1 letter: forage, forgat, forget, garote, orgeat.

-2 letters: afore, after, argot, ergot, fagot, fetor, forge, forte, gator, gofer, graft, grate, great, groat, oater, ofter, orate, retag, targe, terga, togae.

-3 letters: aero, ager, ergo, fare, faro, fart, fate, fear, feat, feta, fora, fore, fort, frae, frag, frat, fret, froe, frog, gate, gear, geta, goat, goer, gore.

+1 letter: fagoters, footgear, frontage, frottage.

+2 letters: afterglow, factorage, footgears, forestage, forgather, fosterage, frontages, frottages, godfather, xenograft.

+3 letters: afterglows, factorages, faggotries, foredating, foregather, forestages, forgathers, fosterages, godfathers, isografted, profligate, refloating, xenografts.

+4 letters: afforesting, allografted, antiforeign, autografted, cofeaturing, ferromagnet, footdragger, forecasting, foregathers, foretasting, forgathered, forgettable, godfathered, heterograft, overfatigue, perforating, profligates.

+5 letters: aforethought, afterthought, agroforester, agroforestry, deflagration, ferromagnets, festivalgoer, footdraggers, foregathered, forestalling, forgathering, forgeability, godfathering, heterografts, overfatigued, overfatigues, overstaffing, profligately, reformatting, refrigerator, terraforming, thoroughfare, vociferating, waterfowling.