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went

1

[ went ]

verb

  1. simple past tense of go 1.
  2. Nonstandard. a past participle of go 1.


went

2

[ went ]

verb

  1. Archaic. a simple past tense and past participle of wend.

went

/ wɛnt /

verb

  1. See go
    the past tense of go 1


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Example Sentences

In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.

A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.

When I put their allegations to Epstein, he denied them and went into overdrive.

I went into the audition as Fericito, the Venezuelan percussionist, and then I did a self-defense expert.

In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.

His zeal led him among foreigners as a missionary; after visiting Bohemia, he went among the Poles, by whom he was killed.

Off went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.

This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.

The children possessed themselves of the tent, and Mrs. Pontellier went over to join them.

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