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Verb: go round
  1. Avoid something unpleasant or laborious
    "You cannot go round these rules!";
    - bypass, short-circuit, go around, get around, get round
     
  2. Become widely known and passed on
    "the story went round in the office";
    - go around, spread, circulate
     
  3. Turn on or around an axis or a centre
    "The wheel went round";
    - revolve, go around, rotate
     
  4. Be sufficient
    "There's not enough to go round";
    - go around
     
  5. (of illness/disease) spread or circulate
    "The flu is going round the office";
    - go around
     
  6. Go around the flank of (an opposing army)
    "The cavalry went round the enemy's defences";
    - outflank, go around

Derived forms: going round, gone round, went round, goes round

Type of: answer, avoid, do, go, locomote, move, serve, suffice, travel, turn