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Arose vs Went - What's the difference?

arose | went |

As verbs the difference between arose and went

is that arose is simple past of arise while went is simple past of go.

As a noun went is

a course; a way, a path; a journey.

arose

English

Verb

(head)
  • (arise)

    • arise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * arize (obsolete)

    Verb

  • To come up from a lower to a higher position.
    • to arise from a kneeling posture
    A cloud arose and covered the sun.
  • To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
    • He arose early in the morning.
  • To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
  • * Bible, Exodus i. 8
    • There arose up a new king which knew not Joseph.
  • * Milton
    • the doubts that in his heart arose
  • * 1961 , J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês'' of Plato," ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association , vol. 92, p. 454,
    • Because Plato allowed them to co-exist, the meaning and connotations of the one overlap those of the other, and ambiguities arise .

    Synonyms

    * emerge * occur * appear * * (idiomatic) pop up * (resume existing) reappear

    References

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    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs

    went

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (go)
  • (nonstandard)
  • (archaic) (wend)

    • Derived terms

    * (l), (l) (both archaic)

    Statistics

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
  • * Chaucer
    • At a turning of a wente .
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
    • But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went .

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