"go round" meaning in English

See go round in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: goes round [present, singular, third-person], going round [participle, present], went round [past], gone round [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> round}} go round (third-person singular simple present goes round, present participle going round, simple past went round, past participle gone round)
  1. To physically swirl or rotate. Translations (to physically swirl): pyöriä (Finnish), kieppua (Finnish), kääntyä (Finnish), kiertyä (Finnish), drehen [reflexive] (German), rotieren (German), rundlaufen (english: without problems) (German)
    Sense id: en-go_round-en-verb-YEfcufgU Disambiguation of 'to physically swirl': 63 3 8 2 6 8 2 6 3
  2. To rotate, to move in a circle. Translations (to rotate): kääntää (Finnish), kiertää (Finnish), pyörittää (Finnish), pyöriä (Finnish), kääntyä (Finnish), kiertyä (Finnish), kieppua (Finnish), drehen [reflexive] (German), umkreisen (German), umrunden (German)
    Sense id: en-go_round-en-verb-C2J2Hcy2 Disambiguation of 'to rotate': 36 49 0 2 2 5 2 4 1
  3. (transitive) To travel around (something) physically. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-go_round-en-verb-CvDBGTSG
  4. (transitive, figurative) To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre. Tags: figuratively, transitive Translations (to circumvent so.): päihittää (Finnish), jmdn. umgehen [prefix, unstressed] (German) Translations (to evade sth.): välttää (Finnish), karttaa (Finnish), väistää (Finnish), etwas umgehen [prefix, unstressed] (German)
    Sense id: en-go_round-en-verb-UFC81iD- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 2 2 17 18 5 2 26 24 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 3 3 2 20 20 5 3 20 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 2 2 17 20 10 3 23 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 2 2 20 20 6 2 24 22 Disambiguation of 'to circumvent so.': 4 6 0 68 3 9 2 6 2 Disambiguation of 'to evade sth.': 3 3 1 39 21 6 2 5 21
  5. (transitive, figurative) To circulate, to move aimlessly. Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: en-go_round-en-verb-dsaS8JW7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 2 2 17 18 5 2 26 24 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 3 3 2 20 20 5 3 20 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 2 2 17 20 10 3 23 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 2 2 20 20 6 2 24 22
  6. To pass around, to circulate. Translations (to bypass something): välttää (Finnish), karttaa (Finnish), väistää (Finnish), um etwas herumgehen (German) Translations (to pass around (sth.)): kierrättää (Finnish), pistää eteenpäin (Finnish), etwas herumgehen lassen (German), herumgereicht werden (German), die Runde machen [idiomatic] (German)
    Sense id: en-go_round-en-verb-aIX6JIP0 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 2 2 17 20 10 3 23 20 Disambiguation of 'to bypass something': 7 10 0 17 11 26 7 19 5 Disambiguation of 'to pass around (sth.)': 2 3 3 5 8 69 2 4 5
  7. (intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone. Tags: intransitive Translations (to be sufficient, be enough for everyone): riittää kaikille (Finnish), für alle / jeden (in dieser Runde) (German)
    Sense id: en-go_round-en-verb-tB-UF99X Disambiguation of 'to be sufficient, be enough for everyone': 2 1 1 0 2 1 85 5 2
  8. To go to another person's home or a public event. Derived forms: go round in circles, make the world go round, make this world go round Related terms: go around, go-round, merry-go-round Translations (to go to another person's home or to a particular place): vierailla (Finnish), käydä kylässä (Finnish), mennä kylään (Finnish), piipahtaa (Finnish), pistäytyä (Finnish), käväistä (Finnish), vorbeischauen (German), hinübergehen (German)
    Sense id: en-go_round-en-verb-1Sq~fdqt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "round", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 2 2 17 18 5 2 26 24 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "round": 4 4 3 18 18 6 3 26 19 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 3 3 2 20 20 5 3 20 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 2 2 17 20 10 3 23 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 2 2 20 20 6 2 24 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 4 3 2 18 20 4 3 28 18 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 3 3 2 19 19 4 3 26 20 Disambiguation of "to go to another person's home or to a particular place": 1 2 0 1 2 3 1 88 1
  9. To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification). Translations (to live behaving in a certain way): olla tapana (Finnish), tavata (Finnish), herumlaufen (German), herumrennen (German)
    Sense id: en-go_round-en-verb-A4jhZEHv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 2 2 17 18 5 2 26 24 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 3 3 2 20 20 5 3 20 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 2 2 17 20 10 3 23 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 2 2 20 20 6 2 24 22 Disambiguation of 'to live behaving in a certain way': 2 7 0 2 2 3 2 4 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations ((fig.) to circulate invisibly): herumgehen (German), etwas geht um (German)
Disambiguation of '(fig.) to circulate invisibly': 5 6 0 3 35 36 3 9 3

Inflected forms

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    {
      "form": "goes round",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going round",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went round",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone round",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> round"
      },
      "expansion": "go round (third-person singular simple present goes round, present participle going round, simple past went round, past participle gone round)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "glosses": [
        "To physically swirl or rotate."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_round-en-verb-YEfcufgU",
      "links": [
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          "swirl",
          "swirl"
        ],
        [
          "rotate",
          "rotate"
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      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 8 2 6 8 2 6 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to physically swirl",
          "word": "pyöriä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 8 2 6 8 2 6 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to physically swirl",
          "word": "kieppua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 8 2 6 8 2 6 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to physically swirl",
          "word": "kääntyä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 8 2 6 8 2 6 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to physically swirl",
          "word": "kiertyä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 8 2 6 8 2 6 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to physically swirl",
          "tags": [
            "reflexive"
          ],
          "word": "drehen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 8 2 6 8 2 6 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to physically swirl",
          "word": "rotieren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 3 8 2 6 8 2 6 3",
          "code": "de",
          "english": "without problems",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to physically swirl",
          "word": "rundlaufen"
        }
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "To rotate, to move in a circle."
      ],
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          "rotate"
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        {
          "_dis1": "36 49 0 2 2 5 2 4 1",
          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to rotate",
          "word": "kääntää"
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        {
          "_dis1": "36 49 0 2 2 5 2 4 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to rotate",
          "word": "kiertää"
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        {
          "_dis1": "36 49 0 2 2 5 2 4 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to rotate",
          "word": "pyörittää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "36 49 0 2 2 5 2 4 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to rotate",
          "word": "pyöriä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "36 49 0 2 2 5 2 4 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to rotate",
          "word": "kääntyä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "36 49 0 2 2 5 2 4 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to rotate",
          "word": "kiertyä"
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        {
          "_dis1": "36 49 0 2 2 5 2 4 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to rotate",
          "word": "kieppua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "36 49 0 2 2 5 2 4 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to rotate",
          "tags": [
            "reflexive"
          ],
          "word": "drehen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "36 49 0 2 2 5 2 4 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to rotate",
          "word": "umkreisen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "36 49 0 2 2 5 2 4 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to rotate",
          "word": "umrunden"
        }
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "To travel around (something) physically."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_round-en-verb-CvDBGTSG",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To travel around (something) physically."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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      "glosses": [
        "To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre."
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          "circumvent",
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          "evade",
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          "outmanoeuvre",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative) To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 6 0 68 3 9 2 6 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to circumvent so.",
          "word": "päihittää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 6 0 68 3 9 2 6 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to circumvent so.",
          "tags": [
            "prefix",
            "unstressed"
          ],
          "word": "jmdn. umgehen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 1 39 21 6 2 5 21",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to evade sth.",
          "word": "välttää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 1 39 21 6 2 5 21",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to evade sth.",
          "word": "karttaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 1 39 21 6 2 5 21",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to evade sth.",
          "word": "väistää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 1 39 21 6 2 5 21",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to evade sth.",
          "tags": [
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            "unstressed"
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          "word": "etwas umgehen"
        }
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To circulate, to move aimlessly."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_round-en-verb-dsaS8JW7",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative) To circulate, to move aimlessly."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They say a new deadly virus is going round in South America.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pass around, to circulate."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_round-en-verb-aIX6JIP0",
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        {
          "_dis1": "7 10 0 17 11 26 7 19 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to bypass something",
          "word": "välttää"
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        {
          "_dis1": "7 10 0 17 11 26 7 19 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to bypass something",
          "word": "karttaa"
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        {
          "_dis1": "7 10 0 17 11 26 7 19 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to bypass something",
          "word": "väistää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 10 0 17 11 26 7 19 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to bypass something",
          "word": "um etwas herumgehen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 3 5 8 69 2 4 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to pass around (sth.)",
          "word": "kierrättää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 3 5 8 69 2 4 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to pass around (sth.)",
          "word": "pistää eteenpäin"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 3 5 8 69 2 4 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to pass around (sth.)",
          "word": "etwas herumgehen lassen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 3 5 8 69 2 4 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to pass around (sth.)",
          "word": "herumgereicht werden"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 3 5 8 69 2 4 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to pass around (sth.)",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "die Runde machen"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_round-en-verb-tB-UF99X",
      "links": [
        [
          "sufficient",
          "sufficient"
        ],
        [
          "enough",
          "enough"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 1 1 0 2 1 85 5 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be sufficient, be enough for everyone",
          "word": "riittää kaikille"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 1 1 0 2 1 85 5 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be sufficient, be enough for everyone",
          "word": "für alle / jeden (in dieser Runde)"
        }
      ]
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0",
          "word": "go round in circles"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0",
          "word": "make the world go round"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0",
          "word": "make this world go round"
        }
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          "text": "I went round and told him what I thought of him.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go to another person's home or a public event."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_round-en-verb-1Sq~fdqt",
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0",
          "word": "go around"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0",
          "word": "go-round"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0",
          "word": "merry-go-round"
        }
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 0 1 2 3 1 88 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
          "word": "vierailla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 0 1 2 3 1 88 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
          "word": "käydä kylässä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 0 1 2 3 1 88 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
          "word": "mennä kylään"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 0 1 2 3 1 88 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
          "word": "piipahtaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 0 1 2 3 1 88 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
          "word": "pistäytyä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 0 1 2 3 1 88 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
          "word": "käväistä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 0 1 2 3 1 88 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
          "word": "vorbeischauen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 2 0 1 2 3 1 88 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
          "word": "hinübergehen"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You can't go round stealing from unlocked cars!",
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      "glosses": [
        "To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification)."
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        {
          "_dis1": "2 7 0 2 2 3 2 4 78",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to live behaving in a certain way",
          "word": "olla tapana"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 7 0 2 2 3 2 4 78",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to live behaving in a certain way",
          "word": "tavata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 7 0 2 2 3 2 4 78",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to live behaving in a certain way",
          "word": "herumlaufen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 7 0 2 2 3 2 4 78",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to live behaving in a certain way",
          "word": "herumrennen"
        }
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    {
      "_dis1": "5 6 0 3 35 36 3 9 3",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "(fig.) to circulate invisibly",
      "word": "herumgehen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "5 6 0 3 35 36 3 9 3",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "(fig.) to circulate invisibly",
      "word": "etwas geht um"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go round"
}
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    {
      "word": "go round in circles"
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    {
      "word": "make the world go round"
    },
    {
      "word": "make this world go round"
    }
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      "form": "goes round",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "went round",
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  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "go around"
    },
    {
      "word": "go-round"
    },
    {
      "word": "merry-go-round"
    }
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "To physically swirl or rotate."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "rotate",
          "rotate"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "To rotate, to move in a circle."
      ],
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        [
          "rotate",
          "rotate"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To travel around (something) physically."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To travel around (something) physically."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre."
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          "evade",
          "evade"
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        "(transitive, figurative) To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
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      "glosses": [
        "To circulate, to move aimlessly."
      ],
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        "(transitive, figurative) To circulate, to move aimlessly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
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      "categories": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They say a new deadly virus is going round in South America.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pass around, to circulate."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone."
      ],
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        [
          "sufficient",
          "sufficient"
        ],
        [
          "enough",
          "enough"
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      ],
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        "(intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I went round and told him what I thought of him.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go to another person's home or a public event."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You can't go round stealing from unlocked cars!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification)."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to physically swirl",
      "word": "pyöriä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to physically swirl",
      "word": "kieppua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to physically swirl",
      "word": "kääntyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to physically swirl",
      "word": "kiertyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to physically swirl",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "word": "drehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to physically swirl",
      "word": "rotieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "without problems",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to physically swirl",
      "word": "rundlaufen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to rotate",
      "word": "kääntää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to rotate",
      "word": "kiertää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to rotate",
      "word": "pyörittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to rotate",
      "word": "pyöriä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to rotate",
      "word": "kääntyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to rotate",
      "word": "kiertyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to rotate",
      "word": "kieppua"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to rotate",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "word": "drehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to rotate",
      "word": "umkreisen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to rotate",
      "word": "umrunden"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to bypass something",
      "word": "välttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to bypass something",
      "word": "karttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to bypass something",
      "word": "väistää"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to bypass something",
      "word": "um etwas herumgehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to circumvent so.",
      "word": "päihittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to circumvent so.",
      "tags": [
        "prefix",
        "unstressed"
      ],
      "word": "jmdn. umgehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to evade sth.",
      "word": "välttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to evade sth.",
      "word": "karttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to evade sth.",
      "word": "väistää"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to evade sth.",
      "tags": [
        "prefix",
        "unstressed"
      ],
      "word": "etwas umgehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "(fig.) to circulate invisibly",
      "word": "herumgehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "(fig.) to circulate invisibly",
      "word": "etwas geht um"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pass around (sth.)",
      "word": "kierrättää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pass around (sth.)",
      "word": "pistää eteenpäin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to pass around (sth.)",
      "word": "etwas herumgehen lassen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to pass around (sth.)",
      "word": "herumgereicht werden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to pass around (sth.)",
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "word": "die Runde machen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be sufficient, be enough for everyone",
      "word": "riittää kaikille"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be sufficient, be enough for everyone",
      "word": "für alle / jeden (in dieser Runde)"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
      "word": "vierailla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
      "word": "käydä kylässä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
      "word": "mennä kylään"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
      "word": "piipahtaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
      "word": "pistäytyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
      "word": "käväistä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
      "word": "vorbeischauen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to go to another person's home or to a particular place",
      "word": "hinübergehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to live behaving in a certain way",
      "word": "olla tapana"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to live behaving in a certain way",
      "word": "tavata"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to live behaving in a certain way",
      "word": "herumlaufen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to live behaving in a certain way",
      "word": "herumrennen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go round"
}

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