Word.ws English Dictionary

went to the devil

went to the devil is the simple past of go to the devil.

Meaning of go to the devil

Verb

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

  1. (derogatory, figuratively, slang) To go to a bad or unpleasant place or situation; used in expressions of contempt or angry dismissal.
    • I never want to see my ex-wife again. She can go to the devil for all I care.

Questions about went to the devil

What is went to the devil the simple past of?
Went to the devil is the simple past of go to the devil.

Words near went to the devil in the dictionary

  1. went to someone's head
  2. went to the bad
  3. went to the bathroom
  4. went to the bow-wows
  5. went to the country
  6. went to the devil
  7. went to the dogs
  8. went to the ends of the earth
  9. went to the ends of the world
  10. went to the goat's house for wool
  11. went to the mat

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: went to the devil (page history and authors); go to the devil (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:

Cite this entry: “went to the devil.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/went_to_the_devil. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.