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go with (third-person singular simple present goes with, present participle going with, simple past went with, past participle gone with)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ with.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To choose or accept (a suggestion).

   Synonyms: pick, select

   Although I liked your suggestion, I'll go with my original idea.

3. (idiomatic, transitive) To date, to be involved romantically with (someone).

   Synonyms: go out with, go steady; see also Thesaurus:date

4. (idiomatic, transitive) To have sexual relations with (someone).

   Synonyms: be with, go to bed with, lie with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

5. (transitive) To correspond or fit well with, to match.

   Synonyms: harmonize, match, tone in

   Does this red skirt go with this pink blouse?

6. (obsolete, transitive) To be pregnant with (a child).

   Synonyms: carry, eat for two; see also Thesaurus:be pregnant

   • c. 1613, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry VIII, act 5, scene 1:

     The fruit she goes with, / I pray for heartily, that it may find / Good time, and live.

   • 1635, Jacques Guillemeau, Child-birth; Or, The Happy Delivery of Women, page 30:

     When the woman is come to the ninth Moneth, having beene in good health all the time of her going with child: she must continue the use of the aforesaid Ointments, and must begin to use more exercise than she did before, walking gently before meales the first twelve or fifteene daies; and then afterward it will be good to use stronger exercise.

   • 1722, Jean Domat, The Civil Law in Its Natural Order: Together with the Public Law, page 647:

     But it seems reasonable that in the particular case where the question is, whether a Child be legitimate or not; the doubt arising from this, that the Child's birth is either too forward, or too backward, we should join to the common Rules which result from the Texts quoted on this Article, as to what concerns the time of a Woman's going with Child, the consideration of the particular circumstances, in order to decide wisely and prudently a question of so great consequence, in which the honour of a Mother, the state of a Child, and the quiet of the Families, which have an interest both in the one and the other, are all equally concerned.

   • 1727 August 8, R. Bradley, letter:

     The time of pregnancy, of the Lioness' going with young, as the keepers inform me, is four months.

   • 1731, John Barnard, The Certainty, Time, and End, of the Birth of Our Lord, page 64:

     This is the Sixth Month with her that was called barren; which leads us to Feb. 9th; and the Nine months, of the Virgin's going with Child, will unavoidably bring us to Nov. 9th.

   • 1765, Richard Brookes, The General Practice of Physic, page 251:

     Hoffman says, the usual Time is nine solar Months; and Juncker, that Excretions from the Uterus being by women referred to certain lunar Phases, they reckon their going with Child by the Weeks, and that they usually exclude the Foetus forty Weeks from the Time of their being with Child, commonly on that very Day they were used to have their Menses.

   • 1795, Court of King's Bench, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, Great Britain:

     If the husband was out of the four seas during all the time of the wife's going with child, the child is a bastard; but if he were here at all within the time, it is legitimate, and no bastard.

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