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go bad

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break downverb

    stop operating or functioning

    "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

  2. spoil, go badverb

    become unfit for consumption or use

    "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"

Wiktionary

  1. go badverb

    Of foods and commodities, to spoil, rot, or otherwise become unusable due to age or storage conditions.

  2. go badverb

    Of a person or entity, to cease to be reputable and instead become delinquent, criminal, or poorly behaved.

  3. go badverb

    Of a geographic area, to become unsafe.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of go bad in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of go bad in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of go bad in a Sentence

  1. George Burns:

    Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

  2. Dan Gross:

    We believe that on a few very specific fronts they can do more to crack down on bad-apple gun dealers, the very small percentage of gun dealers who sell almost every crime gun in the U.S., the ATF has the power to crack down on them and pull their licenses if they are responsible for business practices that wind up causing gun crime and Gun Violence.

  3. Steve Boxer:

    We're going to find out what's good and bad about virtual reality in the months and years to come, personally I don't want to have to sit there wearing a virtual reality helmet for more than 20 minutes.

  4. Thomas Markle:

    If the queen is willing to meet our arrogant and insensitive president, she has no excuse not to meet me - I'm nowhere near as bad.

  5. Donald Trump:

    Any regulation that's outdated, unnecessary, bad for workers or contrary to the national interest will be scrapped and scrapped completely, we're going to do all this while taking proper regard for rational environmental concerns.


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