"go spare" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-go spare.wav Forms: goes spare [present, singular, third-person], going spare [participle, present], went spare [past], gone spare [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> spare}} go spare (third-person singular simple present goes spare, present participle going spare, simple past went spare, past participle gone spare)
  1. To be available or unused. Translations (to be available): olla tarjolla (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-go_spare-en-verb-jq80UlIN Disambiguation of 'to be available': 94 1 5
  2. (UK, informal) To become very angry; to become frustrated or distraught: see spare. Tags: UK, informal Translations (to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)): turhautua (Finnish), kyllästyä (Finnish), die Fassung verlieren (German), die Beherrschung verlieren (German), sich ärgern (German), perdere le staffe (Italian)
    Sense id: en-go_spare-en-verb--O7spNfk Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 73 15 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 20 60 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 63 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 75 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 12 76 12 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 15 69 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 13 75 13 Disambiguation of 'to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)': 1 98 1
  3. (archaic) To be unemployed. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-go_spare-en-verb-wTkWW97M

Inflected forms

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        "To be available or unused."
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          "_dis1": "94 1 5",
          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to be available",
          "word": "olla tarjolla"
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        "(UK, informal) To become very angry; to become frustrated or distraught: see spare."
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        "(archaic) To be unemployed."
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        "To be available or unused."
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        "(archaic) To be unemployed."
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be available",
      "word": "olla tarjolla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
      "word": "turhautua"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
      "word": "kyllästyä"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
      "word": "die Fassung verlieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
      "word": "die Beherrschung verlieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
      "word": "sich ärgern"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)",
      "word": "perdere le staffe"
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