Meaning of go through sth In English

• 0 to experience a difficult or unpleasant situation:

  • I've been going through a bad patch recently.

  • You'd think his children would be more sympathetic towards him after all he's gone through (= the many bad things he has experienced).

• 1 to examine something that contains a collection of things carefully in order to organize them or find something:

  • I'm going through my wardrobe and throwing out all the clothes I don't wear any more.

  • Remember to go through the pockets before you put those trousers in the washing machine.

• 2 to do something in order to practise or as a test:

  • Why don't we go through the whole demonstration once more?

• 3 to use a lot of something:

  • Before I gave up coffee, I was going through five cups a day.

  • I went through a hundred quid on my last trip to London.