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noun
- Bankruptcy.
- Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown.
- (pathology) A condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life.
- An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure, has failed at something or incapable of success.
- State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
- Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
- a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
- an act that fails
- inability to discharge all your debts as they come due
- lack of success
- loss of ability to function normally
- an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose
- an unexpected omission
adj
noun
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
verb
- reduce to bankruptcy
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
verb
- (intransitive) To go bankrupt; to be ruined.
- (intransitive) To be consumed by fire.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, up.
- (cricket) To appeal for a dismissal.
- (intransitive) To be built or erected.
- (intransitive) To be imprisoned.
- (intransitive) To rise or increase in price, cost, or value.
- (intransitive, performing arts) To forget lines or blocks during public performance.
- (intransitive) To move upwards.
- move towards
- burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
- be erected, built, or constructed
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- move upward
- increase in value or to a higher point
- travel up
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To go bankrupt.
- (transitive) To reduce to zero.
- (computing, transitive) To fill with zeros, replacing any previous contents.
- (transitive) To cut off funding for (a project).
- (telecommunications, intransitive) To press or dial 0 in order to escape a voicemail recording facility and speak to an operator.
verb
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- be unsuccessful
- prove insufficient
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- deteriorate
- stop operating or functioning
- fall short in what is expected
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- be unable
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- (ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
noun
adj
noun
adj
- financially ruined
- (finance, of a person, company, etc.) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
- (figurative) Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
verb
adj
noun
adj
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- destroyed financially
- (of land) Uneven.
- (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
- (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- (sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
- (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- (of skin) Split or ruptured.
- (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- (informal) Badly designed or implemented.
- (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
- physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
- out of working order (‘busted’ is an informal substitute for ‘broken’)
- imperfectly spoken or written
- tamed or trained to obey
- topographically very uneven
- lacking a part or parts
- weakened and infirm
- discontinuous
verb
adj
noun
- (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
- (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A woman's breasts; the circumference of her chest measured around the breasts.
- (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- (slang) A disappointment.
- (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
- the chest of a woman
- a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- a complete failure
verb
- (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
- (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
- (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
- (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To attack, hit or insult (someone).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, transitive) To shoot (a gun).
- (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
- (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- (slang) To do or perform; to move quickly.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
- (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
- (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
- (transitive) To debunk, dispel (a belief).
- (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
- search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- ruin completely
- go to pieces
verb
- reduce to bankruptcy
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- reduce to bankruptcy
- hit violently
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- hit with great force
- overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
- collide or strike violently and suddenly
- break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
- damage or destroy as if by violence
- humiliate or depress completely
- hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
- (transitive, US) To deform through continuous pressure.
- (transitive, figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
- (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
- (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.
- (transitive) To hit extremely hard.
noun
- a conspicuous success
- the act of colliding with something
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- a vigorous blow
- a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
- The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
- (aviation, informal) Airspeed; dynamic pressure.
- A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A traffic collision.
- (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
- A mashed foodstuff.
adv
noun
- (law) The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
- A judgment or sentence.
- The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.
- (law, Scotland) A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.
- (emergency response) The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.
- the final judgment in a legal proceeding; the act of pronouncing judgment based on the evidence presented
verb
- (idiomatic) To collapse or fail, e.g. by going bankrupt.
- (idiomatic) To die.
- To descend into a body of water; to founder.
- (slang, Australia) To be imprisoned.
- (idiomatic) To be named; to call oneself.
- To enter a trance, state of hypnosis, etc.
- disappear beyond the horizon
- go under
- be called; go by a certain name
noun
- (business) An act of clearing a person's debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- (sports, originally baseball) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep; also, a victory or series of victories by a very large margin.
- (uncountable, cooking) The most basic type of thickening agent, consisting of flour blended with water to make a paste.
- (uncountable) A mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
- A thing used to hide mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; also (often politics), an act of hiding mistakes or creating an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; especially, a campaign, investigation, etc., which intentionally hides or overlooks unfavourable facts.
- (countable, cosmetics, historical) A preparation for making the skin look lighter.
- a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
- a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
- wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
verb
- (figurative, business) To have debts cleared through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- (media) To make over (someone of colour) so that they appear more white, for example, by applying lightening makeup to their skin or digitally manipulating an image of them.
- (sports, originally baseball, informal) To achieve a complete victory or series of victories over (an opponent) without suffering any losses; also, to achieve a victory or series of victories over (an opponent) by a very large margin.
- (chiefly film, television) To cast a white actor in a role for a person of colour in (a film, television programme, etc.).
- (chiefly literary and poetic, often passive voice) To cover or coat (something) with a white substance, as if with whitewash (noun noun sense 1); also, to light up (something) with white light.
- To paint (a building, a wall, etc.) a bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
- (derogatory) To distort or give a misleading account of (history, a narrative, etc.) by discounting the participation of people of colour and focusing on white people.
- (often politics) To hide (someone's) mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc., for (someone); also, to intentionally hide or overlook (mistakes, unfavourable facts, wrongdoing, etc.).
- (business) To clear (someone's) debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court; also, to clear or write off (a debt).
- To paint bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
- cover with whitewash
- exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data
- cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
verb
- (finance, intransitive) To lose money.
- (intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
- (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
- (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
- To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
- (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- (publishing, advertising, ambitransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
- To lose sap, gum, or juice.
- (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
- (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
- (intransitive) To menstruate.
- (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
- (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
- (intransitive, copulative, figurative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
- draw blood
- be diffused
- lose blood from one's body
- drain of liquid or steam
- get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone
noun
- (television) A margin left at the edges of a shot to allow for the picture being cropped when it arrives at viewers' screens.
- (uncountable, roleplaying games) The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
- (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
- An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
noun
- One who liquidates.
- One supporting the political policy of liquidationism; a liquidationist.
- Any of the workers involved in cleaning up the Chernobyl disaster
- a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
- (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
noun
noun
- loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid
- an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified
- act of failing to meet a financial obligation
- loss due to not showing up
- (finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
- (finance) The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
- A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
- (often attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
- (law) The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
- A loss incurred by failing to compete.
verb
- (intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.
- fail to pay up
- (intransitive, law) To fail to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (intransitive) To lose a competition by failing to compete.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.
noun
- Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner.
- (finance) The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay their debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business.
- The condition of having more debts than assets.
- the lack of financial resources
noun
verb
- (transitive) To treat as a write-off, a total loss, especially something damaged beyond economic repair.
- (accounting, transitive) To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.
- (accounting, transitive) To record (an expenditure) as an expense.
- (figurative, transitive) To assign a low value to (somebody or something).
- (accounting) To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation.
- (accounting, transitive) To remove a portion of a debt or an amount of an account owed, counting it as a loss (as a gesture of goodwill for example).
- reduce the estimated value of something
- concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody
- cancel (a debt)
- write something fluently, and without hesitation
noun
- Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.
- (slang, vulgar, usually in the plural) Private parts; a woman's breasts or buttocks, or a man's genitalia.
- (accounting) The left side of a balance sheet.
- (law) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
- (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
- plural of asset
- anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company
adj
- (of expenses or costs) That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
- (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
- (cricket) Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
- (grammar, of a word or phrase that can take a complement) Not having any expressed complement.
- (in combination) Having the specified number or kind of strands.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
- (of a person) Abandoned or marooned.
- cut off or left behind
verb
noun
- Bankruptcy.
- Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown.
- (pathology) A condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life.
- An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure, has failed at something or incapable of success.
- State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
- Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
- a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
- an act that fails
- inability to discharge all your debts as they come due
- lack of success
- loss of ability to function normally
- an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose
- an unexpected omission
noun
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
verb
- reduce to bankruptcy
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
noun
adj
- financially ruined
- (finance, of a person, company, etc.) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
- (figurative) Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
verb
noun
- (law) The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
- A judgment or sentence.
- The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.
- (law, Scotland) A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.
- (emergency response) The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.
- the final judgment in a legal proceeding; the act of pronouncing judgment based on the evidence presented
noun
- (business) An act of clearing a person's debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- (sports, originally baseball) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep; also, a victory or series of victories by a very large margin.
- (uncountable, cooking) The most basic type of thickening agent, consisting of flour blended with water to make a paste.
- (uncountable) A mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
- A thing used to hide mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; also (often politics), an act of hiding mistakes or creating an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; especially, a campaign, investigation, etc., which intentionally hides or overlooks unfavourable facts.
- (countable, cosmetics, historical) A preparation for making the skin look lighter.
- a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
- a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
- wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
verb
- (figurative, business) To have debts cleared through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- (media) To make over (someone of colour) so that they appear more white, for example, by applying lightening makeup to their skin or digitally manipulating an image of them.
- (sports, originally baseball, informal) To achieve a complete victory or series of victories over (an opponent) without suffering any losses; also, to achieve a victory or series of victories over (an opponent) by a very large margin.
- (chiefly film, television) To cast a white actor in a role for a person of colour in (a film, television programme, etc.).
- (chiefly literary and poetic, often passive voice) To cover or coat (something) with a white substance, as if with whitewash (noun noun sense 1); also, to light up (something) with white light.
- To paint (a building, a wall, etc.) a bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
- (derogatory) To distort or give a misleading account of (history, a narrative, etc.) by discounting the participation of people of colour and focusing on white people.
- (often politics) To hide (someone's) mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc., for (someone); also, to intentionally hide or overlook (mistakes, unfavourable facts, wrongdoing, etc.).
- (business) To clear (someone's) debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court; also, to clear or write off (a debt).
- To paint bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
- cover with whitewash
- exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data
- cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
noun
- One who liquidates.
- One supporting the political policy of liquidationism; a liquidationist.
- Any of the workers involved in cleaning up the Chernobyl disaster
- a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
- (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
noun
noun
- loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid
- an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified
- act of failing to meet a financial obligation
- loss due to not showing up
- (finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
- (finance) The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
- A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
- (often attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
- (law) The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
- A loss incurred by failing to compete.
verb
- (intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.
- fail to pay up
- (intransitive, law) To fail to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (intransitive) To lose a competition by failing to compete.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.
verb
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- be unsuccessful
- prove insufficient
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- deteriorate
- stop operating or functioning
- fall short in what is expected
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- be unable
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- (ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
noun
adj
noun
- Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner.
- (finance) The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay their debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business.
- The condition of having more debts than assets.
- the lack of financial resources
noun
noun
- Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.
- (slang, vulgar, usually in the plural) Private parts; a woman's breasts or buttocks, or a man's genitalia.
- (accounting) The left side of a balance sheet.
- (law) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
- (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
- plural of asset
- anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company
verb
- (intransitive) To go bankrupt; to be ruined.
- (intransitive) To be consumed by fire.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, up.
- (cricket) To appeal for a dismissal.
- (intransitive) To be built or erected.
- (intransitive) To be imprisoned.
- (intransitive) To rise or increase in price, cost, or value.
- (intransitive, performing arts) To forget lines or blocks during public performance.
- (intransitive) To move upwards.
- move towards
- burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
- be erected, built, or constructed
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- move upward
- increase in value or to a higher point
- travel up
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To go bankrupt.
- (transitive) To reduce to zero.
- (computing, transitive) To fill with zeros, replacing any previous contents.
- (transitive) To cut off funding for (a project).
- (telecommunications, intransitive) To press or dial 0 in order to escape a voicemail recording facility and speak to an operator.
verb
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- be unsuccessful
- prove insufficient
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- deteriorate
- stop operating or functioning
- fall short in what is expected
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- be unable
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- (ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
noun
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
verb
- reduce to bankruptcy
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
noun
adj
- financially ruined
- (finance, of a person, company, etc.) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
- (figurative) Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
verb
verb
- reduce to bankruptcy
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- reduce to bankruptcy
- hit violently
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- hit with great force
- overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
- collide or strike violently and suddenly
- break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
- damage or destroy as if by violence
- humiliate or depress completely
- hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
- (transitive, US) To deform through continuous pressure.
- (transitive, figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
- (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
- (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.
- (transitive) To hit extremely hard.
noun
- a conspicuous success
- the act of colliding with something
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- a vigorous blow
- a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
- The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
- (aviation, informal) Airspeed; dynamic pressure.
- A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A traffic collision.
- (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
- A mashed foodstuff.
adv
verb
- (idiomatic) To collapse or fail, e.g. by going bankrupt.
- (idiomatic) To die.
- To descend into a body of water; to founder.
- (slang, Australia) To be imprisoned.
- (idiomatic) To be named; to call oneself.
- To enter a trance, state of hypnosis, etc.
- disappear beyond the horizon
- go under
- be called; go by a certain name
verb
- (finance, intransitive) To lose money.
- (intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
- (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
- (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
- To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
- (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- (publishing, advertising, ambitransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
- To lose sap, gum, or juice.
- (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
- (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
- (intransitive) To menstruate.
- (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
- (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
- (intransitive, copulative, figurative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
- draw blood
- be diffused
- lose blood from one's body
- drain of liquid or steam
- get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone
noun
- (television) A margin left at the edges of a shot to allow for the picture being cropped when it arrives at viewers' screens.
- (uncountable, roleplaying games) The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
- (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
- An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
verb
- (transitive) To treat as a write-off, a total loss, especially something damaged beyond economic repair.
- (accounting, transitive) To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero.
- (accounting, transitive) To record (an expenditure) as an expense.
- (figurative, transitive) To assign a low value to (somebody or something).
- (accounting) To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation.
- (accounting, transitive) To remove a portion of a debt or an amount of an account owed, counting it as a loss (as a gesture of goodwill for example).
- reduce the estimated value of something
- concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody
- cancel (a debt)
- write something fluently, and without hesitation
noun
- (business) An act of clearing a person's debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- (sports, originally baseball) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep; also, a victory or series of victories by a very large margin.
- (uncountable, cooking) The most basic type of thickening agent, consisting of flour blended with water to make a paste.
- (uncountable) A mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
- A thing used to hide mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; also (often politics), an act of hiding mistakes or creating an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; especially, a campaign, investigation, etc., which intentionally hides or overlooks unfavourable facts.
- (countable, cosmetics, historical) A preparation for making the skin look lighter.
- a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
- a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
- wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
verb
- (figurative, business) To have debts cleared through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- (media) To make over (someone of colour) so that they appear more white, for example, by applying lightening makeup to their skin or digitally manipulating an image of them.
- (sports, originally baseball, informal) To achieve a complete victory or series of victories over (an opponent) without suffering any losses; also, to achieve a victory or series of victories over (an opponent) by a very large margin.
- (chiefly film, television) To cast a white actor in a role for a person of colour in (a film, television programme, etc.).
- (chiefly literary and poetic, often passive voice) To cover or coat (something) with a white substance, as if with whitewash (noun noun sense 1); also, to light up (something) with white light.
- To paint (a building, a wall, etc.) a bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
- (derogatory) To distort or give a misleading account of (history, a narrative, etc.) by discounting the participation of people of colour and focusing on white people.
- (often politics) To hide (someone's) mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc., for (someone); also, to intentionally hide or overlook (mistakes, unfavourable facts, wrongdoing, etc.).
- (business) To clear (someone's) debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court; also, to clear or write off (a debt).
- To paint bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
- cover with whitewash
- exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data
- cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
noun
- loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid
- an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified
- act of failing to meet a financial obligation
- loss due to not showing up
- (finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
- (finance) The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
- A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
- (often attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
- (law) The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
- A loss incurred by failing to compete.
verb
- (intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.
- fail to pay up
- (intransitive, law) To fail to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (intransitive) To lose a competition by failing to compete.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
noun
adj
- financially ruined
- (finance, of a person, company, etc.) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
- (figurative) Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
verb
adj
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- destroyed financially
- (of land) Uneven.
- (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
- (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- (sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
- (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- (of skin) Split or ruptured.
- (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- (informal) Badly designed or implemented.
- (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
- physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
- out of working order (‘busted’ is an informal substitute for ‘broken’)
- imperfectly spoken or written
- tamed or trained to obey
- topographically very uneven
- lacking a part or parts
- weakened and infirm
- discontinuous
verb
adj
noun
- (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
- (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A woman's breasts; the circumference of her chest measured around the breasts.
- (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- (slang) A disappointment.
- (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
- the chest of a woman
- a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- a complete failure
verb
- (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
- (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
- (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
- (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To attack, hit or insult (someone).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, transitive) To shoot (a gun).
- (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
- (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- (slang) To do or perform; to move quickly.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
- (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
- (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
- (transitive) To debunk, dispel (a belief).
- (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
- search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- ruin completely
- go to pieces
adj
- (of expenses or costs) That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
- (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
- (cricket) Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
- (grammar, of a word or phrase that can take a complement) Not having any expressed complement.
- (in combination) Having the specified number or kind of strands.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
- (of a person) Abandoned or marooned.
- cut off or left behind