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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

go the way of en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To end up the same way as; to undergo the same fate as.
    • We now need to make coal-­ and gas-­fired power plants go the way of whale oil. And if you want to change the world, it helps first to have an alternative. People invented railways to replace horse-­drawn carriages, electricity to supplant steam engines, rock oil for whale oil, and the market –­ Adam Smith’s great invisible hand –­ ensured they took hold. 2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, in The Guardian:
    • Vinyl records seem to have gone the way of the dinosaurs [i.e. become extinct, or fallen out of common use].

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
gone the way of Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
goes the way of Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
went the way of Tense=Past lexicographic
going the way of Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

go the way of the dinosaurs · go the way of the dodo