GO WRONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go wrong mean? 

• GO WRONG (verb)
  The verb GO WRONG has 1 sense:

1. be unsuccessful

  Familiarity information: GO WRONG used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO WRONG (verb)

Meaning:

Be unsuccessful

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

go wrong; miscarry; fail

Context examples:

Where do today's public schools fail? / The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go wrong"):

take it on the chin (undergo failure or defeat)

miss (fail to reach or get to)

overreach (fail by aiming too high or trying too hard)

ball up; blow; bobble; bodge; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; botch; botch up; bumble; bungle; flub; fluff; foul up; fuck up; fumble; louse up; mess up; mishandle; muck up; muff; screw up; spoil (make a mess of, destroy or ruin)

strike out (be unsuccessful in an endeavor)

fall (suffer defeat, failure, or ruin)

shipwreck (suffer failure, as in some enterprise)

fall flat; fall through; flop; founder (fail utterly; collapse)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP