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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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  1. go bad

    To "go bad" is a term generally used to describe a change from a functional, satisfactory, or beneficial state to one that is faulty, unsatisfactory, or harmful. This term is familiarly used to refer to the spoilage or expiration of food but can also be used metaphorically to describe an unfavorable shift in situations, plans, relationships, or even a person's behavior or character.

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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. Koji Nagai:

    At the moment we're hardly making any money (overseas), securitized products make money in good times, but in bad times cause huge losses.

  2. Kirk Adams:

    A lot of Republicans inside the official AZ GOP apparatus have left their conservative principals behind. They're now loyal to a single man or personality versus a platform of ideas, perhaps this fever will break. But if it doesn't, it spells bad news for Republicans seeking office in this state.

  3. Anders Frantzen:

    I told myself I really wanted to come back here and take a proper look. It looks like something you haven't seen since the Second World War. It's very bad, it's difficult to put a face, an image to the numbers we hear about. So you see these pictures (and) it sort of puts things in a new perspective.

  4. Andy Sullivan:

    The market has been beset with worries and actually things are not so bad, although the start of the Q3 results have been messy, there are enough positive signs on earnings growth to keep markets positive. The world is not ending, things are more or less on track.

  5. Sonequa Martin-Green:

    We went to a very deep place, it was hard, depressing, bad and thrilling all at the same time. A lot of the stuff was quite challenging for me. It was something I can definitely look back on and be proud of.


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