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Definition of Go wrong
1. Verb. Be unsuccessful. "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"
Specialized synonyms: Take It On The Chin, Miss, Overreach, Ball Up, Blow, Bobble, Bodge, Bollix, Bollix Up, Bollocks, Bollocks Up, Botch, Botch Up, Bumble, Bungle, Flub, Fluff, Foul Up, Fuck Up, Fumble, Louse Up, Mess Up, Mishandle, Muck Up, Muff, Screw Up, Spoil, Strike Out, Fall, Shipwreck, Fall Flat, Fall Through, Flop, Founder
Derivative terms: Failure, Failure, Failure, Failure, Miscarriage
Antonyms: Succeed
Definition of Go wrong
1. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) To fail or go amiss; to have a bad outcome. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) To malfunction. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) to become depraved ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Go Wrong
Literary usage of Go wrong
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"You cannot go wrong; these honest men will get the channels ready; you will easily
be able to drive back the two plugs with this pair of iron crooks; ..."
2. English Reader by Lindley Murray (1840)
"... afraid to go forward, lest he should go wrong, jet conscious that the time of
loitering was now past. While he was thus tortured with uncertainty, ..."
3. Anthracite Coal Communities: A Study of the Demography, the Social by Peter Roberts (1904)
"OUR BOYS AND GIRLS WHO Go WRONG. At the close of the year 1900 there were 1553
juvenile delinquents in the reformatories of the State, not counting the 513 ..."
4. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"What Can go wrong with your power In a perfect world, you get clean power coming
from the local power company and into your building in any of three ..."
5. Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary by Ibn Khallikān (1843)
"... the second makes his disciples read it to him and corrects them when they go
wrong. P. 599, nof«(5 , Knell. ..."
6. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1897)
"In regard to such pleasures as are individual there are many people who go wrong,
and they go wrong in many different ways. For if people are said to be ..."
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