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gone negative

gone negative is the past participle of go negative.

Meaning of go negative

Verb

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

  1. (US) To focus on attacking political opponents rather than promoting oneself.
    • After losing several primaries and facing a campaign debt of $250,000, his associates persuaded him to go negative.2008, Lynda Lee Kaid, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Encyclopedia of Political Communication, volume 1

Questions about gone negative

What is gone negative the past participle of?
Gone negative is the past participle of go negative.

Words near gone negative in the dictionary

  1. gone moggy
  2. gone nap
  3. gone nap on
  4. gone narrow
  5. gone native
  6. gone negative
  7. gone night-night
  8. gone north about
  9. gone nowhere
  10. gone nowhere fast
  11. gone nuclear

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