Go Bad

Definition: Go Bad

Go Bad

Verb

1. 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. Become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Go Bad

Deterioration

Run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweal; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel; (contract); fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and yellow leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish; die.

Uncleanness

Verb: be unclean, become unclean; Adjective:; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek; stink; mold, molder; go bad; Adjective:

Crosswords: Go Bad

When angels go bad, they go worse than anyone. (NeverWhere; writing credit: Neil Gaiman; Lenny Henry)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Afrikaans

bederwe (putrefy, rot, spoil), bederf (bribe, corruption, damage, decay, depravation, injure, putrefy, rot, spoil, taint). (various references)

Albanian

shkon keq, kalbem (become rotten, decay, decompose, perish, putrefy, rot, spoil), bëhem keq. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسد (be corrupted, be decayed, be decomposed, be depraved, be evil, be immoral, be marred, be pervert, be putrid, be rotten, be spoiled, be vicious, become corrupted, become decayed, become decomposed, become depraved, become evil, become immoral, become marred, become pervert, become perverted, become putrid, become rotten, become spoiled, become vicious, contaminate, corrupt, decay, decompose, degenerate, deprave, deteriorate, disintegrate, foul, impair, infect, mangle, mar, mess, mess up, misrule, putrefy, rot, spoil, spoilt), ‏تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), ‏تخسر (go to the dogs). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развалям се (addle, conk, fail, taint, turn, turn off, turn sour), разваля се, вмирисвам се. (various references)

Chinese 

變質 (deteriorate, metamorphism). (various references)

Czech

zkazit se (addle, go off), kazit se (decay, putrefy, taint). (various references)

Dutch

bederven (bribe, damage, injure, putrefy, rot, spoil). (various references)

Esperanto

malboniĝi. (various references)

French

tourner, se gâter, pourrir, devenir mauvais. (various references)

German

verkommen (abandoned, become dilapidated, become dissolute, become run-down, become spoiled, decay, depraved, deteriorate, dilapidated, fall to pieces, go to pieces, go to the bad, go to the dogs, go to waste, reprobate, reprobated, reprobately, run wild, scrofulous, sleazy, sordid, to reprobate, wild), vergammeln (get spoilt, go to seed, go to the dogs, molder, waste), verderben (abase, addle, adulterate, bane, banes, barbarize, become corrupted, become depraved, become ruined, become spoiled, blight, break down, bribe, contaminate, corrupt, damage, debauch, deprave, destroy, disaster, doom, go off, going off, infect, injure, kill, Mar, molder, perdition, perditions, pervert, pollute, pollution, put off, ruin, ruination, ruining, spoil, spoiling, spoilt, taint, to barbarize, to debauch, to deprave, to spoil, to taint, undoing, vitiate, vitiation, wreck), faulen (decay, putrefy, putrescences, rod, rot). (various references)

Greek 

χαλάω (go off), αλοιώνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תקלקל (deteriorate, go to the dogs, go wrong, perish, spoil). (various references)

Hungarian

tönkremegy (become foul, go bust, go to pot, go to the devil, go under, to become bankrupt, to bung, to fold up, to get spoiled, to go broke, to go bust, to go on the fritz, to go phut, to go pop, to go smash, to go to pot, to go to rack and ruin, to go to ruin, to go to the bad, to go to the devil, to go to the dogs, to smash, to spoil), romlik (deteriorate, go sour, to decay, to decline, to deteriorate, to fall off, to rot), megromlik (blew, blown, canker, deteriorate, go sour, to addle, to blow, to corrupt, to deteriorate, to get spoiled, to go bad, to go off, to go pot, to perish, to rot, to spoil, to taint, turn sour). (various references)

Italian

putrefare (decompose, putrefy), marcire (decay, fester, rod, rot, waste away), deteriorare (damage, deteriorate), alterare (alter, change, clone, falsify, forge, garble, get angry, go sour, lose one's temper, modify, transform, weather). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

腐る (to go bad, to rot). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すえる (to apply, to go bad, to lay, to place, to set, to turn sour), くさる (to go bad, to rot), いたむ (to be damaged, to be injured, to feel a pain, to go bad, to grieve over, to hurt, to lament, to mourn). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogay adbay

Romanian

se strica (addle, break up, corrupt, decay, deteriorate, fester, go phut, ret, retrogress, spoil, turn). (various references)

Russian 

портиться (deteriorate, get out of order, rust, spoil, waterlog), испортиться (foul, get out of order, go awry). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukvariti (spoil), pokvariti se (addle, become rotten, conk, let rot). (various references)

Spanish

pudrirse (addle, decay, putrefy, rot), pasarse (bandy, go, go off, go over, pass over, stew), estropearse (break, break down, deteriorate, fail, get damaged, give up, go, go phut, hurt, scuff, smash, spoil), descomponerse (break down, decompose, rot), descomponer (break down, decompose, decompound, disarrange, discompose, rot). (various references)

Swedish

bli dålig. (various references)

Turkish

kokuşmak (putrefy, rot, taint), kokmak (addle, fester, reek, savor of, savour of, smell, stink), ekşimek (acetify, be upset, ferment, Fox, go off, go sour, sour, turn, turn sour), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), çürümek (become unsound, canker, decay, decline, decompose, fester, go off, languish, molder, moulder, perish, putrefy, ret, rot, sphacelate, spoil). (various references)

Turkmen 

zaяalanmak, uzanmak (lie down), pislemek, dymjykmak (spoil). (various references)

Ukrainian

згнити, псуватися (addle, change, corrupt, decay, spoil). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dago, goad.

-2 letters: abo, ado, ago, bad, bag, boa, bod, bog, dab, dag, dog, gab, gad, goa, gob, god.

-3 letters: ab, ad, ag, ba, bo, do, go, od.

+1 letter: bandog, bodega, dagoba.

+2 letters: aboding, bandogs, bodegas, bondage, dagobas, dogbane, gambado.

+3 letters: boarding, bondages, dogbanes, gabbroid, gadabout, gambados, gamboled, garboard, globated, pegboard, tagboard, vagabond.

+4 letters: abounding, abrogated, adsorbing, bandwagon, begroaned, boardings, bodyguard, brocading, dodgeball, embargoed, gadabouts, gambadoes, gambolled, garboards, garderobe, obligated, pegboards, sabotaged, signboard, tagboards, vagabonds.

+5 letters: abandoning, absconding, background, backlogged, bandwagons, bargeboard, beglamored, biodegrade, blockading, bodyguards, boldfacing, bombarding, broadening, dodgeballs, garderobes, globalised, globalized, objurgated, outbragged, reboarding, signboards, subrogated, tobogganed, vagabonded.