All follow synonyms
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F f verb follow
- trail β to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
- pursue β to strive to gain; seek to attain or accomplish (an end, object, purpose, etc.).
- track β a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- seek β to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
- accompany β If you accompany someone, you go somewhere with them.
- attend β If you attend a meeting or other event, you are present at it.
- serve β to act as a servant.
- support β to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- adopt β If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
- watch β to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- keep β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- reflect β to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.
- observe β to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- see β to perceive with the eyes; look at.
- accept β If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.
- get β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- supervene β to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
- supersede β to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
- displace β to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- replace β to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- succeed β to happen or terminate according to desire; turn out successfully; have the desired result: Our efforts succeeded.
- supplant β to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- result β to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
- chase β If you chase someone, or chase after them, you run after them or follow them quickly in order to catch or reach them.
- postdate β to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- concatenate β to link or join together, esp in a chain or series
- spook β Informal. a ghost; specter.
- search β to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- draggle β to soil by dragging over damp ground or in mud.
- convoy β A convoy is a group of vehicles or ships travelling together.
- persecute β to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- hunt β to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- dog β a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- freeze β to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- tail β the limitation of an estate to a person and the personβs heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
- tag β a children's game in which one player chases the others in an effort to touch one of them, who then takes the role of pursuer.
- stalk β an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
- shadow β a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- hound β Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- catenate β to arrange or be arranged in a series of chains or rings
- shag β this dance step.
- tailgate β a style of playing the trombone, especially in Dixieland jazz, distinguished especially by the use of melodic counterpoint and long glissandi.
- conform β If something conforms to something such as a law or someone's wishes, it is of the required type or quality.
- accord β An accord between countries or groups of people is a formal agreement, for example to end a war.
- obey β to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
- imitate β to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
- regard β to look upon or think of with a particular feeling: to regard a person with favor.
- mind β (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- note β a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- mimic β to imitate or copy in action, speech, etc., often playfully or derisively.