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go about

go about

 
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go
part of speech: phrase
definition 1: to proceed with (something) in a certain way, or in a correct way.
I want to create a garden, but I don't really know how to go about it.We can do this, but we need to go about it carefully.I think you're going about this all wrong. You should have painted the corner of the room first.They might have succeeded with their plan if they had gone about it in the right way.He wanted to borrow money from them, but he went about it stupidly.
definition 2: to go through the necessary steps of doing (something); proceed with.
Last Sunday, she went about doing her taxes and I worked on my project.