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Definition of Go bad
1. Verb. Stop operating or functioning. "These cars won't go bad "; "Her eyesight went after the accident"
Generic synonyms: Change
Related verbs: Break, Buy The Farm, Cash In One's Chips, Choke, Conk, Croak, Decease, Die, Drop Dead, Exit, Expire, Give-up The Ghost, Go, Kick The Bucket, Pass, Pass Away, Perish, Pop Off, Snuff It
Specialized synonyms: Crash, Go Down, Blow, Blow Out, Burn Out, Misfire, Malfunction, Misfunction
Derivative terms: Breakable, Breakdown, Failure
2. Verb. Become unfit for consumption or use. "The meat must be eaten before it spoils"
Specialized synonyms: Addle, Curdle
Generic synonyms: Decay
Derivative terms: Spoilage, Spoiling
Definition of Go bad
1. Verb. Of foods and commodities, to spoil, rot, or otherwise become unusable due to age or storage conditions. ¹
2. Verb. Of a person or entity, to cease to be reputable and instead become delinquent, criminal, or poorly behaved. ¹
3. Verb. Of a geographic area, to become unsafe. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Go Bad
Literary usage of Go bad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, John Smith (1867)
"That matters must needs go bad, while all the town, and every boy in the street,
openly cries " The King cannot go away till my Lady Castlemaine be ready to ..."
2. Waiter, There's a Horse in My Wine: A Treasury of Entertainment, Exploration by Jennifer "Chotzi" Rosen (2005)
"... When Good Wines go bad Detecting faults The wine came highly recommended, but
it smells like horse-sweat and tastes like wet ashes. ..."
3. A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation: With Notes on by Alfred T. Bryant (1905)
"go bad, turn bad, as beer, milk, fruit, or a person who has turned to evil ways;
... Make so go bad, or wriggle about. or dip; any disinfectant [Eng.]. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Hindee Language by John Drew Bate (1875)
"... ГУ HI, respectively. , a. tni. to go bad, to spoil. fi, w. ... qv : 2, t.
to scatter, spread about, sprinkle, strew. go bad, go to the had. , more com. ..."
5. Grammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language as Spoken in the Upper by William McCutchan Morrison (1906)
"(go bad, become useless), vi., ... (make to go bad), vt., ona, nyanga. (rot),
vi., bola. (smell bad), v., nunka muhu- BAKE, vt., ..."
6. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt (1890)
"They produce numbers of ichneumon cocoons, and even if they go down in the sand
and make a cocoon, they, as often as not, go bad in it. ..."
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