GOES Synonyms: 534 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

Definition of goes

present tense third-person singular of go

as in progresses

to move forward along a course everything is going according to our plans

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as in departs

to leave a place often for another will go on vacation at the end of the year decided it would be better to go before she got any angrier

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as in suffices

to be fitting or proper at Mardi Gras, just about anything goes

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as in corresponds

to be in agreement on every point your account of how the fire started doesn't go with what she said

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as in leads

to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction the highway goes right along the river

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as in becomes

to eventually have as a state or quality she goes crazy on the dance floor when they start playing 1980s pop the room went dark

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as in collapses

to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure watched the building go after the demolition crew detonated the charges

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as in belongs

to have or be in a usual or proper place these plates go in this cabinet

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as in fades

to lose bodily strength or vigor when you get old, your eyesight starts to go

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as in follows

to make one's way through, across, or over I went the length of the street before finding an empty parking space

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as in varies

to occur within a continuous range of variation selling prices for houses in that neighborhood generally go between one and two million

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as in puts

to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event to play in this game of poker, you have to be willing to go at least five dollars per round

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as in intends

chiefly Southern & Midland to have in mind as a purpose or goal I didn't go to fire the gun—it just went off

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as in ends

to come to an end we were having so much fun that the evening just came and went

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as in affords

to have enough money for I think I can go for the new car after all

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as in stands

to put up with (something painful or difficult) I can't go the smell of that rotting food for one more minute

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as in dies

to stop living her grandmother went peacefully last night

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as in succeeds

to turn out as planned or desired we tried very hard to get the food cooperative to go, but it never really worked out

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goes

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noun

plural of go

as in tries

an effort to do or accomplish something it took several goes to get the car started

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Recent Examples of goes

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In Whalefall, written and directed by Brian Duffield, Jay (Abrams) goes diving in the Pacific Ocean to find the remains of his late father Mitt (Josh Brolin), who took his own life a year before amid a terminal illness. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026 Based on Greaves’ short story, One Night Out centers on a married couple who head out to enjoy a rare date night when their babysitter goes missing. — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026 Most of the zoo's budget goes toward caring for its animals and paying staff, leaving limited funding for projects such as the entrance renovation. — James Taylor, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 The mounting debt also means a greater share of the government’s revenue goes toward interest payments instead of other priorities like public services. — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 Apply that to CoreWeave CDS over at 1,000 basis points, and the cost to insure $1 million of CoreWeave debt goes above $100,000. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026 Since then, the scuttlebutt goes, members of the doc branch have determined that their fellow Academy voters cannot be trusted with lighter fare. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026 Beauty is in the eye of the pie-holder, or however that saying goes. — Hunter Lacey, Allure, 16 Oct. 2026 But Dovzhenko goes a step further by making his characters look less like statues than like natural features, the wrinkles on their faces as noble as riverbeds. — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026

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As far as co-op puzzle-solving goes, Orbitals doesn’t reinvent the wheel. — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026 The first phase of the railway that the Colorado Connector (CoCo) will make trips on goes from Denver up to Boulder, on to Fort Collins. — Chierstin Roth, CBS News, 14 July 2026 Does this mean those pop-goes-punk comp albums are coming back? — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026 Except then there’s the chance of being FUNNELED, placed on the rails and headed for a very specific destination, instead of the OPEN-WORLD anything-goes of traditional D&D. — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026 The we-might-all-die-if-this-special-effect-goes-wrong stuff. — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026 Choose from 21 colors, from goes-with-everything black to standout prints and textures, including holiday-ready velvet or sequins. — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2026 Meanwhile, Weaver reminded us of the coat’s versatility while wearing a goes-with-everything matte black version. — Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 27 Dec. 2025 Like, main-character-walks-in-and-the-crowd-goes-silent energy. — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 23 Dec. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for goes

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As the movie progresses, Fielder and the audience must question whether and how they’re being deceived.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
As the film progresses and the paths of the three protagonists cross in one way or another, the timbres and instrumental approach also begin to blend.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of progresses

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At the root of these changes is Dhillon's vision of the Civil Rights Division and its mission that dramatically departs from tradition.

— Ryan Lucas, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026
The ending, which substantially departs from Malerman’s novel, offers a richer choice than the source material.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of departs

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Simply photographing the surface of the brain somehow suffices.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026
The majority explained that authority for the president to construct the ballroom requires satisfying both of those statutes; neither alone suffices.

— Ellen P. Aprill, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of suffices

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Murali Baggu, who leads the grid-integration program at the National Laboratory of the Rockies, says technical challenges remain and standards are still in flux.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
According to one study, China leads America in 66 of 74 strategically vital technologies, including forms of machine learning and advanced computing.

— Andrei Iancu, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of leads

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Researchers can model what happens if copper prices increase sharply or if a newer technology becomes commercially viable years from now.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
In this future, the scarce asset would be not the chatbot, but the device, operating system, and personal context through which the chatbot becomes useful.

— Andrew R. Chow, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of becomes

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Measuring a quantum state typically collapses it, forcing it into one of two possible answers.

— Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
The arc of this feud is now well known to all and will no doubt be shaped into the epic poetry our descendants recite in front of bonfires long after our civilization collapses.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of collapses

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Mandel’s work also informed a 2012 New York Times Magazine column on how the art market thrives on inequality, which argued that fine art belongs less to the broader global economy than to the peculiar economy of the very rich.

— Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
The harder work is judging where each boundary belongs, and that depends on risk, precedent and what the incentives currently reward.

— Dr. Nore Salman, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026