fail
Verb
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subtypes:
- lose track - fail to keep informed or aware
- strike out - put out or be put out by a strikeout
- default, default on - fail to pay up
- choke - fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- muff - fail to catch, as of a ball
- miss - fail to attend an event or activity
same as: neglect -
subtypes:
- 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
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is a type of: disappoint, let down - fail to meet the hopes or expectations ofsame as: betray
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is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original naturesubtypes:
- crash, go down - stop operating
- blow, blow out, burn out - melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- misfire - fail to fire or detonate
- malfunction, misfunction - fail to function or function improperly
verb group:- break - render inoperable or ineffective
- buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
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