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go spare

go spare verb: to be available or unused.

Verb

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

  1. To be available or unused.
    • There's some bacon going spare if anyone wants some more.
  2. (UK, informal) To become very angry; to become frustrated or distraught: see spare.
    • When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare.
    • The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that.
  3. (archaic) To be unemployed.

go spare meaning in Malayalam

go spare in Malayalam

get angry, become enraged, lose one's temper
കോപിക്കുക, കുപിതനാകുക, ക്ഷോഭിക്കുക, വിധം മാറുക, ദേഷ്യപ്പെടുക, മോകരിക്കുക

Forms of go spare

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

Questions about go spare

What does go spare mean?
Go spare means to be available or unused.
What is go spare in Malayalam?
Go spare in Malayalam is കോപിക്കുക, കുപിതനാകുക, ക്ഷോഭിക്കുക. See Go spare meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is go spare?
Go spare is a verb.
What is the past tense of go spare?
The past tense of go spare is went spare.

Words near go spare in the dictionary

  1. go soak your head
  2. go soft
  3. go someone, it's your birthday
  4. go sour
  5. go south
  6. go spare
  7. go steady
  8. go stone
  9. go stones
  10. go straight
  11. go strong

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Adapted from Wiktionary: go spare (page history and authors); go spare (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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