GO meaning BECOME

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GO meaning BECOME

We use go to mean become before some adjectives.

1.   This happens with color words:

§  Leaves go brown.

§  People go red, pale or white with anger, blue with cold, green with seasickness.

§  If you faint, everything goes black.

In a formal style, we use turn instead of go in these cases.  

2.  We use go with some others adjectives to talk about things changing for the worse. Some common expression:

§  People go mad, crazy, deaf, blind, grey, bald.

§  Machines go wrong.

§  Iron goes rusty.

§  Meat goes bad.

§  Milk goes sour.

§  Bread goes stale.