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If you f_____ someone who is going somewhere, you move along behind them without their knowledge, in order to catch them or find out where they are going.If you follow someone who is going somewhere, you move along behind them without their knowledge, in order to catch them or find out where they are going.
She realized that the Mercedes was following her.
I think we're being followed.
word follow
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verb
If you follow someone who is going somewhere, you move along behind them because you want to go to the same place.
We followed him up the steps into a large hall.
Please follow me, madam.
They took him into a small room and I followed.
If you follow someone who is going somewhere, you move along behind them without their knowledge, in order to catch them or find out where they are going.
She realized that the Mercedes was following her.
I think we're being followed.
If you follow someone to a place where they have recently gone and where they are now, you go to join them there.
He followed Janice to New York, where she was preparing an exhibition.
An event, activity, or period of time that follows a particular thing happens or comes after that thing, at a later time.
...the rioting and looting that followed the verdict.
He was arrested in the confusion which followed.
Other problems may follow.
Eye witnesses spoke of a noise followed by a huge red light.
If you follow one thing with another, you do or say the second thing after you have done or said the first thing.
She broadcast on radio, and followed this with a series of credits in films and on TV.
Most comics who score a hit at Edinburgh follow it up with a big tour.
If it follows that a particular thing is the case, that thing is a logical result of something else being true or being the case.
Just because a bird does not breed one year, it does not follow that it will fail the next.
If the explanation is right, two things follow.
It is easy to see the conclusions described in the text follow from this equation.
If you refer to the words that follow or followed, you are referring to the words that come next or came next in a piece of writing or speech.
What follows is an eye-witness account.
There followed a list of places where Hans intended to visit.
General analysis is followed by five case studies.
If you follow a path, route, or set of signs, you go somewhere using the path, route, or signs to direct you.
If they followed the road, they would be certain to reach a village.
All we had to do was follow the map.
I followed the signs to Metrocity.
If something such as a path or river follows a particular route or line, it goes along that route or line.
Our route follows the Pacific coast through densely populated neighbourhoods.
The Lot river follows a winding and tortuous course.
If you follow something with your eyes, or if your eyes follow it, you watch it as it moves or you look along its route or course.
Ann's eyes followed a police car as it drove slowly past.
Something that follows a particular course of development happens or develops in that way.
His release turned out to follow the pattern set by that of the other six hostages.
If you follow advice, an instruction, or a recipe, you act or do something in the way that it indicates.
Take care to follow the instructions carefully.
No two chefs follow the same recipe.
If you follow what someone else has done, you do it too because you think it is a good thing or because you want to copy them.
If I do my bit, others will follow my example and join in to improve things.
Where rich celebrities lead, the great British public will surely follow.
If you follow someone in what you do, you do the same thing or job as they did previously.
He followed his father and became a surgeon.
Anni-Frid's son has followed her into the music business.
If you are able to follow something such as an explanation or the story of a film, you understand it as it continues and develops.
Can you follow the plot so far?
I'm afraid I don't follow.
If you follow something, you take an interest in it and keep informed about what happens.
...the millions of people who follow football because they genuinely love it.
She was following Laura's progress closely.
If you follow someone on a social media website, you choose to see messages and pictures that they post there.
Camille has a blog, and you can follow her on Twitter.
You can also browse Instagram's galleries and follow favourite photographers.
A story, film, or television programme that follows someone or something is about their experiences over a particular period of time.
The film follows the fortunes of two women.
If you follow a score or written copy of a play, you read it while you listen to it being performed.
...an annotated version of Mozart's opera that allows the listener to follow the score.
If you follow a particular religion or political belief, you have that religion or belief.
'Do you follow any particular religion?'—'Yes, we're all Hindus.'
inflections followsfollowingfollowed
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