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1. intransitive verb pass in time: to move onward in terms of time
 As the years go by, he gets more and more mellow.
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2. transitive verb regard something as true: to treat advice or information as reliable or true
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3. transitive verb use particular source of information: to use a particular way of doing something or finding something out
 All we had to go by was a soggy map.
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4. intransitive verb make brief visit: to pay a brief, often unannounced or informal, visit to somebody
 I'll go by Hannah's house and give her the books.
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