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go bad

verb as in putrefy

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In American fiction, we tend to write about things that go bad.

I guessed that it might have been a psychic marker of when everything began to go bad.

Whoever is doing these things has to have enough money to pay up if the bets go bad.

She was also worried that an entire pork shoulder she had just bought might go bad in her unpowered freezer.

Now a lot of things that we anticipated could go bad didn't.

Those qualities—good enough in times of war—go bad in times of peace.

Able to keep fresh under the mandibles of the Sphex-larvae, why did they promptly go bad under the mandibles of the Scolia-larvae?

I was surprised to find it kept good so long: it is seldom known to go bad.

The others, the real knackers, wait for the meat to go bad; they are informed by the strength of the effluvia.

"You'll never know how a real golfer feels when his shots go bad on him," was the consoling response.

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On this page you'll find 311 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to go bad, such as: abuse, bastardize, bestialize, betray, brutalize, and debase.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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