Go About

Definition: Go About

Go About

Verb

1. Begin to deal with; "approach a task"; "go about a difficult problem"; "appraoch a new project".

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

Synonyms: Go About

Abrogation

Interjection: get along with you! begone! go about your business! away with!

Circuition

Verb: turn, bend, wheel; go about, put about; heel; go round to the right about, turn round to the right about; turn on one's heel; make a circle, make a complete circle, describe a circle, describe a complete circle; go through x, go through x, pass through x, pass through x.

Ejection

Interjection: begone! get you gone! get away, go away, get along, go along, get along with you, go along with you! go your way! away with! off with you! get the hell out of here!, go about your business! be off! avaunt! aroynt! allez-vous-en! jao! va-t'en!

Inversion

Verb: be inverted; turn round, turn about, turn to the right about, go round, go about, go to the right about, wheel round, wheel about, wheel to the right about; turn over, go over, tilt over, topple over; capsize, turn turtle.

Publication

Be published; be public, become public; Adjective: come out; go about, fly about, buzz about, blow about; get about, get abroad, get afloat, get wind; find vent; see the light; go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass current; go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the length and breadth of the land; virum volitare per ora; pass from mouth to mouth; spread; run like wildfire, spread like wildfire.

Undertaking

Take up, take in hand; tackle; set about, go about; set to, fall to, set to work; launch forth; set up shop; put in hand, put in execution; set forward; break the neck of a business, be in, for; put one's hand to, put one's foot in; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to, go to do; begin; broach, institute; one's (originate); put one's hand to the plow, lay one's hand to the plow, put one's shoulder to the wheel.

Crosswords: Go About

He can go about his business. (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

Now, Mac, how would you go about killing that? (X the Unknown; writing credit: Jimmy Sangster)

How would you go about taking the measurement of a stick? (How Green Was My Valley; writing credit: Richard Llewellyn; Philip Dunne)

Well, I'm judging only on the basis of one afternoon and an evening, but, uh, if this is how you go about your work, I'd say you'd be lucky to, uh, get through a whole day. (Chinatown; writing credit: Robert Towne)

I go about my business, I'm doing fine (You Were Meant For Me; performing artist: Jewel)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This every one thinks necessary, and believes he deserves to be thought a declared enemy to society and mankind, who should go about to take it away. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Go about six miles.

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Health

Even when sarcoidosis lasts longer, most patients can go about their lives as usual. (references)

Some people with PPH do not seek medical advice until they can no longer go about their daily routine. (references)

However, many patients report that by changing some parts of their lifestyle, they can go about many of their daily tasks. (references)

Business

Average citizens go about their daily lives with more personal freedom than ever before. (references)

Economic History

China

Most average Chinese go about their daily lives with significantly less interference from the government than in years past. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "go about": go about one's business ♦ go about with smb. ♦ go about your business! ♦ how shall i go about it? ♦ To go about. Additional references.

Albanian

shkoj andej-këtej (get about). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تردد على (haunt, high frequency, patronize, resort). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ходя насам-натам, излизам (add up, blow up, come, come away, come off, come out, emerge, exit, get out, get out of, go out, issue, jump, pan out, propound, prove, pull out, rise, run off, sally, set up, shoot out, step off, turn out, walk out, work out). (various references)

Chinese 

辦 (to deal with, to do, to go about, to handle, to manage, to run, to set up). (various references)

Czech

zabývat se èím (be engaged in smth., busy oneself doing smth., deal with, dwell on), vykonávat (administer, dispense, exercise, exert, follow, practise), pustit se do (embark on, go in for, turn, undertake), postupovat (act, do, go, proceed, progress), otoèit loï, chodit (come, go, tramp, walk). (various references)

Finnish

toimia (act, be in action, be in operation, function, go about a thing, operate, run, take action, work). (various references)

French

se trimbaler. (various references)

German

wenden (come round, fork over, heave, reversal, reverse, tack about, toss, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, turn round), umgehen (avoid, be about, bypass, circulate, circumvent, close in, coddle, elude, evade, get round, go around, go round, haunt, obviate, outflank, to bypass, to circumvent, to elude, walk), packen (bundle, catch, clench, enthrall, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, heap, make up, manage, pack, pack up, package, packing, pile, seize, stack, Stow, thrill, to pack, wrap up), herumlaufen (go around, run around, run round, walk around, wander), herumgehen (get around, go around, go round, run about, skirt, walk around, wander around), herumfahren (drive around, go around, ride about, ride around, round on, spin around, spin round, swing round, touring, travel about, turn round quickly). (various references)

Greek 

τριγυρίζω (knock about, look round, mill, prowl, saunter, wander), διαδίδομαι (propagate, spread). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ת�"לך (promenade, stroll, walk). (various references)

Hungarian

jár-kel (shuttle, to get around, to shuttle). (various references)

Indonesian

pindah (immigrate, swicth), mengusahakan (cultivate, exert). (various references)

Italian

aggirare (be around, bypass, go round, outflank, wander about). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

立ち働く (to go about one's work), 出歩く (to go about, to go out, to take a stroll). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちはたらく (to go about one's work), であるく (to go about, to go out, to take a stroll). (various references)

Manx

goll mygeayrt (circle, get about, go round, pass round, skirt), cur harrish (get over, relinquish, relinquishment, speechify). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogay aboutay

Portuguese

andar por aí (go around). (various references)

Romanian

umbla de colo-colo, începe sã (come on to). (various references)

Russian 

расхаживать (perambulated, perambulating). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kružiti (circle, orbit), kolati. (various references)

Spanish

virar (go around, heave to, put about, put around, tack, turn about, turn around, veer), ocuparse (go around, look to), emprender (adopt, assume, attack, enter on, go around, go at, launch, light, set about, set out, set upon, start, tackle, take on, take over, take up, taking over, undertake), correr (blow, chase, draw, flow, gallop, go around, go it, go round, hare, hie, hurry, lap, nip, pour, publish, race, run, run along, scour, scud, scurry, scuttle, shoot, slide, stream, travel, zap), andar (carry, come off, footing, function, get along, get up, go, go around, hang about, hang around, home in on, lark, live, pad, perambulate, stroll, tough, tramp, trip, walk, wend one's way). (various references)

Swedish

resa omkring (itinerate). (various references)

Turkish

gezmek (browse around, get about, hike, itinerate, jaunt, knock about, knock around, perambulate, peregrinate, promenade, range, rove, tour, travel, visit, walk, wander, wander in), yaygın olmak (come in, come up, go around, prevail), salgın olmak (go around), ele almak (approach, deal, go around, go at, handle, tackle), dolaşmak (air oneself, bat around, be afloat, become tangled, browse around, circuit, circulate, float, flow, go around, go for a jaunt, go for a stroll, go for a walk, go on a jaunt, hike, itinerate, jaunt, jauntiness, kink, knot, look round, mat, mosey, perambulate, range, roam, rove, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, travel, walk, walk about, walk around, wander). (various references)

Ukrainian

тинятися (dangle, expatiate, fool about, gad, hack around, knock about, knock around, maroon, muck about, putter, roam, scamp, sling about, slouch about, slouch along, slouch around, traipse, wait about, wait around), походжати (parade, perambulate, walk). (various references)

ambula, ambulabam, ambulabant, ambulabas, ambulabat, ambulabimus, ambulabis, ambulabit, ambulabo, ambulabunt, ambulamus, ambulando, ambulans, ambulant, ambulante, ambulantem, ambulantes, ambulantibus, ambulantis, ambulare, ambularemus, ambularent, ambulares, ambularet, ambularetis, ambulas, ambulasses, ambulasti, ambulastis, ambulat, ambulate, ambulatis, ambulaverat, ambulaverim, ambulaverint, ambulaveris, ambulaverit, ambulaveritis, ambulavero, ambulaverunt, ambulaveruntque, ambulavi, ambulavimus, ambulavit, ambulavitque, ambulem, ambulemus, ambulent, ambules, ambulet, ambuletis, ambulo, circa, circare, grassor. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: about, outgo, taboo.

-3 letters: abut, auto, boat, boot, bota, bout, goat, gobo, gout, tabu, toga, tuba.

-4 letters: abo, ago, bag, bat, boa, bog, boo, bot, bug, but, gab, gat, goa, gob, goo, got, gut, oat, oot, out, tab, tag, tao, tau, tog, too, tub, tug, uta.

-5 letters: ab, ag, at, ba, bo, go, ta.

+4 letters: objurgation, objurgatory, outboasting, subrogation.

+5 letters: automobiling, objurgations, subrogations, thoroughbass, urbanologist.