go wrong
Verb
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Be unsuccessful (synset 202534046)
"Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"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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