go wrong

1. Go astray, make a mistake. For example, We made a left turn and somehow went wrong from then on , or You won't go wrong if you follow the directions in the dress pattern . [c. 1300]

2. Take to evil ways, become a criminal, as in As soon as he turned thirteen, Billy fell in with a gang and began to go wrong . [c. 1500]

3. Fail, turn out badly, as in Everything about this party has gone wrong . [Late 1500s]

4. Fail to work properly, as in The car starts fine, but as soon as you put it in gear, the transmission goes wrong . [Late 1800s]

Example Sentences

But they are not shy in letting their dissatisfaction be known if things start to go wrong, and already incredibly rich golfers on another financial make could become fair game.

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The obvious question in the context of Norris' qualifying error, and Piastri's weekend of them, is what went wrong?

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The company has yet to disclose what went wrong or how long it expects the outage to last.

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"And that is how everything went wrong... that signing ruined my life."

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The new film chronicles a single day at the school where what can go wrong, does go wrong.

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