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went left

went left is the simple past of go left.

Meaning of go left

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, slang) To take a turn for the worse, to go horribly wrong.
    • Two documentaries have been dedicated to exploring why the Fyre Festival went left, available on Hulu and Netflix — “Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened” and “Fyre Fraud.”2019 June 6, Ny Magee, “Ja Rule says despite colossal failure, he’d do a Fyre Festival”, in TheGrio
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, left.

Questions about went left

What is went left the simple past of?
Went left is the simple past of go left.

Words near went left in the dictionary

  1. went into detail
  2. went into one's shell
  3. went into the long grass
  4. went it
  5. went it alone
  6. went left
  7. went like a dream
  8. went long
  9. went mental
  10. went missing
  11. went moggy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: went left (page history and authors); go left (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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