go at

Verb

Meaning

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ at.

To try to solve a problem a specific way; to undertake a task.
I went at the issue for hours but could not come up with a way around it.

To initiate an attack on or an argument with.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

go-at

Synonyms

attack address assail aggress pitch into

Antonyms

recant detour abnegate take back unsay putter around

Examples

I went to a urologist. He told me I could go at any time. Jay London

Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good. Louise L. Hay

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all. Woodrow Wilson

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city. Frank Lloyd Wright

I am an American, Chicago born - Chicago, that somber city - and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. Saul Bellow

Where the heart sleeps is where you're bound to go at dawn. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

go as planned go astray go astray from go at a good clip go at a snail's pace go at backwards