Akademik

go along
verb
1. cooperate or pretend to cooperate (Freq. 4)
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He decided to play along with the burglars for the moment

• Syn: ↑play along
• Hypernyms: ↑collaborate, ↑join forces, ↑cooperate, ↑get together
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s PP

2. continue a certain state, condition, or activity (Freq. 3)
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Keep on working!

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We continued to work into the night

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Keep smiling

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We went on working until well past midnight

• Syn: ↑continue, ↑go on, ↑proceed, ↑keep
• Ant: ↑discontinue (for: ↑continue)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑continuation (for: ↑continue), ↑continuance (for: ↑continue)
• Hypernyms: ↑act, ↑move
• Hyponyms: ↑hold, ↑run on, ↑keep going, ↑ride
• Verb Group: ↑continue, ↑uphold, ↑carry on, ↑bear on, ↑preserve
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s VERB-ing

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Something ——s

 (for: ↑go on)
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Somebody ——s

 (for: ↑go on)
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Something ——s

 (for: ↑continue)
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Somebody ——s

 (for: ↑continue)
3. pass by (Freq. 1)
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three years elapsed

• Syn:
↑elapse, ↑lapse, ↑pass, ↑slip by, ↑glide by, ↑slip away, ↑go by, ↑slide by
• Derivationally related forms: ↑lapse (for: ↑lapse)
• Hypernyms: ↑advance, ↑progress, ↑pass on, ↑move on, ↑march on, ↑go on
• Hyponyms: ↑fly, ↑fell, ↑vanish
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Something is ——ing PP


Useful english dictionary. 2012.