Go Wrong (Verb)
Meaning
Be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably".
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- Their plan to climb Mount Everest went wrong due to a sudden storm.
- The experiment went wrong, and they lost valuable data and funding.
- The operation went wrong when one of the vital organs was accidentally punctured.
- Things went wrong for the company when they made a poor investment decision.
- The entire project went wrong because the team did not consider all the potential risks.