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go bad

go bad verb: to spoil, rot, or otherwise become unusable due to age or storage conditions.

Verb

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

  1. To spoil, rot, or otherwise become unusable due to age or storage conditions.
  2. 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. To become unsafe.

go bad meaning in Urdu

go bad in Urdu

to go bad; expire
کھرنا khurnā

Synonyms of go bad

Forms of go bad

third-person singular presentgoes bad
present participlegoing bad
pastwent bad
past participlegone bad

Questions about go bad

What does go bad mean?
Go bad means to spoil, rot, or otherwise become unusable due to age or storage conditions.
What is go bad in Urdu?
Go bad in Urdu is کھرنا (khurnā). See Go bad meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is go bad?
Go bad is a verb.
What is the past tense of go bad?
The past tense of go bad is went bad.

Words near go bad in the dictionary

  1. go back to the drawing board
  2. go back to the tools
  3. go back to where you came from
  4. go back to your country
  5. go backwards
  6. go bad
  7. go bag
  8. go bags
  9. go bail
  10. go ballistic
  11. go balls up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: go bad (page history and authors); کھرنا (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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