go bad

verb

1. stop operating or functioning

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The engine finally went

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The car died on the road

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The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town

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The coffee maker broke

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The engine failed on the way to town

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her eyesight went after the accident

• Syn:

↑fail, ↑give way, ↑die, ↑give out, ↑conk out, ↑go, ↑break, ↑break down

• Derivationally related forms: ↑breakdown (for: ↑break down), ↑breakable (for: ↑break), ↑failure (for: ↑fail)

• Hypernyms: ↑change

• Hyponyms:

↑crash, ↑go down, ↑blow out, ↑burn out, ↑blow, ↑misfire, ↑malfunction, ↑misfunction

• Verb Group:

↑die, ↑decease, ↑perish, ↑go, ↑exit, ↑pass away, ↑expire, ↑pass, ↑kick the bucket, ↑cash in one's chips, ↑buy the farm, ↑conk, ↑give-up the ghost, ↑drop dead, ↑pop off, ↑choke, ↑croak, ↑snuff it, ↑break

• Verb Frames:

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Something ——s

2. become unfit for consumption or use

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the meat must be eaten before it spoils

• Syn: ↑spoil

• Derivationally related forms: ↑spoilage (for: ↑spoil), ↑spoiling (for: ↑spoil)

• Hypernyms: ↑decay

• Hyponyms: ↑addle, ↑curdle

• Verb Frames:

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Something ——s

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go bad

To decay, become mouldy or putrid

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Main Entry: ↑bad