Word.ws English Dictionary

go the way of all flesh

go the way of all flesh verb: to die; to follow a course leading to death or extinction.

Verb

go the way of all flesh (third-person singular simple present goes the way of all flesh, present participle going the way of all flesh, simple past went the way of all flesh, past participle gone the way of all flesh)

  1. (euphemistic) To die; to follow a course leading to death or extinction.
    • [T]hough the body be going the vvay of all fleſh, yet that ſoule is going the vvay of all Saints.1624, John Donne, chapter XVII, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 434
    • The first stranger handed his neighbor the family mug—a huge vessel of brown ware, having its upper edge worn away like a threshold by the rub of whole generations of thirsty lips that had gone the way of all flesh.1879–1888, Thomas Hardy, “(please specify the page)”, in Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively, and Commonplace […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co....

go the way of all flesh meaning in Bengali and Kannada

go the way of all flesh in Bengali

মারা যাওয়া

go the way of all flesh in Kannada

ಸಾಯು, ತೀರಿಕೊಳ್ಳು

Synonyms of go the way of all flesh

Forms of go the way of all flesh

third-person singular presentgoes the way of all flesh
present participlegoing the way of all flesh
pastwent the way of all flesh
past participlegone the way of all flesh

Origin of go the way of all flesh

Equivalent to Danish gå al kødets gang, German den Weg allen Fleisches gehen.

Questions about go the way of all flesh

What does go the way of all flesh mean?
Go the way of all flesh means to die; to follow a course leading to death or extinction.
What is go the way of all flesh in Bengali?
Go the way of all flesh in Bengali is মারা যাওয়া. See Go the way of all flesh meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is go the way of all flesh?
Go the way of all flesh is a verb.
What is the past tense of go the way of all flesh?
The past tense of go the way of all flesh is went the way of all flesh.

Words near go the way of all flesh in the dictionary

  1. go the entire animal
  2. go the entire swine
  3. go the extra mile
  4. go the route
  5. go the way of
  6. go the way of all flesh
  7. go the way of all the earth
  8. go the way of the dinosaurs
  9. go the way of the dodo
  10. go the way of the dodo bird
  11. go the whole hog

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: go the way of all flesh (page history and authors); go the way of all flesh (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); go the way of all flesh (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-go the way of all flesh.wav.

Cite this entry: “go the way of all flesh.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/go_the_way_of_all_flesh. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.