Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Go bad   /goʊ bæd/   Listen
Go bad

verb
1.
Stop operating or functioning.  Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go.  "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.
Become unfit for consumption or use.  Synonym: spoil.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Go bad" Quotes from Famous Books



... By gar, he's feel too good! He's fall in crik. Dat's noting. No! Good fire, plenty blanket make dat all right. But dat night I hear de ole boss groan, and cry, and turn overe and overe. Light de fire; give him one big drink wheesky. No good. He's go bad all dat night. Nex' day he's het noting. Nex' day he's worser and worser. Wat I can do I can't tell. Den de Bon Dieu he send along dat half-breed. De ole boss he write letter, an' you come ...
— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor

... to miscarry, and so forth.[244] Similarly, in various parts of Europe, it is still believed that if a woman in her courses enters a brewery the beer will turn sour; if she touches beer, wine, vinegar, or milk, it will go bad; if she makes jam, it will not keep; if she mounts a mare, it will miscarry; if she touches buds, they will wither; if she climbs a cherry tree, it will die.[245] In Brunswick people think that if a menstruous woman assists at the killing of a pig, the pork will putrefy.[246] ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer



Words linked to "Go bad" :   decease, drop dead, curdle, buy the farm, go down, burn out, croak, misfire, crash, spoil, choke, pop off, blow, blow out, cash in one's chips, malfunction, pass, expire, conk, perish, kick the bucket, exit, change, decay, addle, give-up the ghost, break down, misfunction, snuff it, pass away



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org