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go with en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, with.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To choose or accept (a suggestion).
   • Although I liked your suggestion, I'll go with my original idea.
   • You have to go with your feelings.
3. (idiomatic, transitive) To date, to be involved romantically with (someone).
4. (idiomatic, transitive) To have sexual relations with (someone).
5. (transitive) To correspond or fit well with, to match.
   • Does this red skirt go with this pink blouse?
6. (obsolete, transitive) To be pregnant with (a child).
   • The fruit she goes with, / I pray for heartily, that it may find / Good time, and live. c. 1613, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry VIII, act 5, scene 1:
   • Hoffman says, the usual Time is nine solar Months; and Juncker, that Excretions from the Uterus being by women referred to certain lunar Phases, they reckon their going with Child by the Weeks, and that they usually exclude the Foetus forty Weeks from the Time of their being with Child, commonly on that very Day they were used to have their Menses. 1765, Richard Brookes, The General Practice of Physic, page 251:
   • But it seems reasonable that in the particular case where the question is, whether a Child be legitimate or not; the doubt arising from this, that the Child's birth is either too forward, or too backward, we should join to the common Rules which result from the Texts quoted on this Article, as to what concerns the time of a Woman's going with Child, the consideration of the particular circumstances, in order to decide wisely and prudently a question of so great consequence, in which the honour of a Mother, the state of a Child, and the quiet of the Families, which have an interest both in the one and the other, are all equally concerned. 1722, Jean Domat, The Civil Law in Its Natural Order: Together with the Public Law, page 647:
   • This is the Sixth Month with her that was called barren; which leads us to Feb. 9th; and the Nine months, of the Virgin's going with Child, will unavoidably bring us to Nov. 9th. 1731, John Barnard, The Certainty, Time, and End, of the Birth of Our Lord, page 64:
   • The time of pregnancy, of the Lioness' going with young, as the keepers inform me, is four months. 1727 August 8, R. Bradley, letter:
   • If the husband was out of the four seas during all the time of the wife's going with child, the child is a bastard; but if he were here at all within the time, it is legitimate, and no bastard. 1795, Court of King's Bench, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, Great Britain:
   • When the woman is come to the ninth Moneth, having beene in good health all the time of her going with child: she must continue the use of the aforesaid Ointments, and must begin to use more exercise than she did before, walking gently before meales the first twelve or fifteene daies; and then afterward it will be good to use stronger exercise. 1635, Jacques Guillemeau, Child-birth; Or, The Happy Delivery of Women, page 30:

Forms

Synonyms

tup · sleep with · roger · knock · bauf · bone · knock off · screw · Informal and slang terms · prig · doink · go to bed with · lie with · hang together · get over on · shelve · eff · slip it to · stallionize · carry · occupy · date · frak · tap · feague · hump · jape · smush · ravage · go out [with] · love · go with · step out · swive · bonk · sard · go with · go together · eat for two · tone in · drill · service · coitize · rut · dick · plug · match · know · see · jump · harmonize · frick · take · dight · rock · fill · slay · plough · be with · get into someone's pants · boff · expletive deleted · pound · schlong · do · season · boom-boom · lie with · wap · shaft · nail · frack · fuck · get up in · diddle · pork · go steady · sleep with · dig out · have · go with · give someone one · lie by · bed · go to bed with · go in unto · see to · ball · eat for two · lay · mount · have one's way with · bang · shag · expect · ream · pump · poke · make · Formal terms · enjoy · love up · give someone the time · coit · boink · root · know someone in the biblical sense · have a thing · penetrate · Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with" · jump someone's bones · smash · have a bun in the oven · have one's wicked way with · select · be with · hit · carry · beep · go out with · seduce · frig · knob · pick · run through

Translations (10)

es ir de la mano con (match, correspond with) · pl pasować (match, correspond with) · ru подойти́ (match, correspond with) · nl passen bij (match, correspond with) · el ταιριάζω (match, correspond with) · hu megy (match, correspond with) · es combinar (match, correspond with) · ru подходи́ть (match, correspond with) · de passen zu (match, correspond with) · fi sopia (match, correspond with)