go bad

English

Verb

go bad (third-person singular simple present goes bad, present participle going bad, simple past went bad, past participle gone bad)

1. (of foods and commodities) To spoil, rot, or otherwise become unusable due to age or storage conditions.
2. (of a person or entity) to cease to be reputable and instead become delinquent, criminal, immoral, corrupt or poorly behaved.

   Synonyms: break bad, go to the bad, turn evil

3. (of a geographic area) To become unsafe.

Translations

of foods: to spoil or rot

• Azerbaijani: xarab olmaq
• Cherokee: ᎠᏲᎦ (ayoga)
• Cimbrian: damaal ghéenan
• Dutch: bederven (nl)
• Finnish: pilaantua (fi)
• French: pourrir (fr), périmer (fr), tourner (fr), moisir (fr), se perdre (fr)
• Galician: estragar (gl), gorar (gl)
• German: verderben (de) n
• Icelandic: skemmast
• Ingrian: pilahussa, pilahua
• Italian: andare a male
• Japanese: 傷む (ja) (いたむ, itamu)
• Polish: gnić (pl) impf, zgnić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: estragar (pt)
• Romanian: se strica, putrezi (ro)
• Russian: по́ртиться (ru) impf (pórtitʹsja), испо́ртиться (ru) pf (ispórtitʹsja)
• Spanish: estropearse (es), malograrse (es), abombarse (es) (Latin America)
• West Frisian: bedjerre

See also

• go sour
• go awry
• go pear-shaped

References

• “go bad”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Dabog