verb
1. stop operating or functioning
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The engine finally went
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The car died on the road
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The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
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The coffee maker broke
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The engine failed on the way to town
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her eyesight went after the accident
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• Derivationally related forms: ↑breakdown (for: ↑break down), ↑breakable (for: ↑break), ↑failure (for: ↑fail)
• Hypernyms: ↑change
• Hyponyms:
• Verb Group:
↑die, ↑decease, ↑perish, ↑go, ↑exit, ↑pass away, ↑expire, ↑pass, ↑kick the bucket, ↑cash in one's chips, ↑buy the farm, ↑conk, ↑give-up the ghost, ↑drop dead, ↑pop off, ↑choke, ↑croak, ↑snuff it, ↑break
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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These cars won't conk out
2. use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
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At the end of the march, I pooped out
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
Useful english dictionary. 2012.