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go af·ter

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English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. go after

    Anything that comes after or goes after another, either in space or in time, is said to follow it. A servant follows or attends his master; a victorious general may follow the retiring enemy merely to watch and hold him in check; he chases or pursues with intent to overtake and attack; the chase is closer and hotter than the pursuit. (Compare synonyms for HUNT.) One event may follow another either with or without special connection; if it ensues, there is some orderly connection; as, the ensuing year; if it results from another, there is some relation of effect, consequence, or inference. A clerk observes his employer's directions. A child obeys his parent's commands, follows or copies his example, imitates his speech and manners. The compositor follows copy; the incoming succeeds the outgoing official.

    Synonyms:
    accompany, attend, chase, come after, copy, ensue, follow, heed, imitate, obey, observe, practise, pursue, result, succeed

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  1. chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, trackverb

    go after with the intent to catch

    "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"

    Synonyms:
    give chase, quest for, traverse, pass over, chase after, cut through, cover, shack, chamfer, mark, get over, chase, drop back, cut across, tail, furrow, get across, trail, train, bob, get behind, label, dog, track, pursue, cross, tag, quest after, drag, dock, hang back, drop behind

  2. quest for, go after, quest after, pursueverb

    go in search of or hunt for

    "pursue a hobby"

    Synonyms:
    give chase, act on, prosecute, chase after, follow up on, quest for, chase, dog, tail, engage, follow, trail, quest after, track, pursue, tag

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  1. Hugo Lopez-Gatell:

    Mexico entered the COVID-19 epidemic a month after the United States, if at a given moment the United States is already in a stabilization phase of its epidemic, Mexico will barely be starting.

  2. Michael Cohen:

    I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we’re in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don’t have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know, so I ’m warning you, tread very f --- lightly, because what I ’m going to do to you is going to be f --- disgusting. You understand me ?

  3. Mohamed Ibn Chambas:

    They will take advantage of the end of the rainy season now to really go after them.

  4. Todd Rosenbluth:

    The departure by Bill Gross continues to negatively impact Pimco Total Return, again, this is a slow, drawn-out bleed where institutions change managers after much debate. Outflows for Pimco are likely to continue in the months to come given decisions for some were put off from pension funds, foundations and endowments.

  5. Christina Aguilera:

    Every big celebrity I know today that went on that show didn't win, you still get a second chance, after 'Star Search,' I wasn't handed a record deal… That took years after that show aired and I lost, to then make a career out of the rest of my life.


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