all-or-nothing
game over
work out
take on water
drop the ball
unsuccessful
pragmatist
make-or-break
mis-
beef
gronk
old college try
take it on the chin
in vain
fall on one's face
whistle in the wind
run a risk
death spiral
cupcake
everything one touches turns to shit
washout
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lay an egg
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postlapsarian
come off
repine
take a dive
nonfailure
conk
come right
fail at life
tear up
fail
fight a losing battle
you win some, you lose some
beat the shit out of
failingness
misappreciation
beat the poop out of
not win for losing
lay eggs
lost cause
fall flat on one's face
take the count
fight off
no-win
mishandle
for
carry
turkey
stymie
death ride
bomb
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causal-final
flop
dud
advantage
run
bright
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borkage
no-win situation
death grip
on
loser
misfall
doomed
born loser
take a licking
cope
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incompliance
you're only as good as your last shift
come a gutser
bomb out
sink or swim
scant
come to nought
fall into a trap
failure to thrive
lose one's way
epic fail
even chance
thwart
bark up the wrong tree
uneffective
be riding for a fall
piffle
can't do right for doing wrong
misperform
require improvement
blow
unlikely
propitious
omnishambles
go down in flames
all-or-nothing
unsuccessful
make-or-break
postlapsarian
no-win
causal-final
bright
on
doomed
uneffective
unlikely
propitious
in vain
losingly
pragmatist
old college try
death spiral
washout
nonstarter
nonfailure
fail
failingness
misappreciation
lost cause
turkey
death ride
bomb
dud
advantage
borkage
no-win situation
death grip
loser
born loser
incompliance
failure to thrive
epic fail
even chance
omnishambles
work out
take on water
drop the ball
beef
gronk
take it on the chin
fall on one's face
whistle in the wind
run a risk
cupcake
go wrong
lay an egg
wear down
come off
repine
take a dive
conk
come right
fail at life
tear up
fight a losing battle
beat the shit out of
beat the poop out of
not win for losing
lay eggs
fall flat on one's face
take the count
fight off
mishandle
carry
stymie
get off the ground
flop
run
come a cropper
misfall
take a licking
cope
go belly-up
come a gutser
bomb out
sink or swim
scant
come to nought
fall into a trap
lose one's way
thwart
bark up the wrong tree
be riding for a fall
piffle
misperform
require improvement
blow
go down in flames
verb
- To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
- To make sense of.
- To strengthen a part one’s body by exercise.
- To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
- To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort.
- To conclude with the correct solution.
- To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.
- To smooth or perfect.
- To exercise, especially by lifting weights.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, out.
- To calculate.
verb
- To fail or mess up.
- To feud or hold a grudge against.
- To cry.
- To add weight or strength to.
- To fart; break wind.
- To complain.
noun
- A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
- The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
- Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
- Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
- The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
- Bovine animals.
- Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
- A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
adj
noun
- The situation or course of action of one who is on a path toward some sort of inevitable catastrophic failure.
- A manoeuvre in which a male skater spins in place while holding one hand of his female skating partner as she circles around him with one skate on the ice and one leg extended outward parallel to the ice surface, all the while slowly lowering herself until her back almost touches the ice surface.
- The downward, corkscrew-motion of a disabled aircraft which is unrecoverably headed for a crash.
noun
- A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- An appliance designed to wash something out.
- The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
- The cleaning of the inside of a (locomotive) boiler to remove scale (limescale).
- A breach in a road or railway caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to wash out of the person before the second treatment begins.
- The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
- The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
- A sporting fixture or other event that could not be completed because of rain.
verb
- To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
- To damage.
- To wrench out of the ground.
- To have intense penetrative sex with.
- To brutally assault.
- To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
- To tear into pieces.
- To start shedding tears.
noun
- A failure (something incapable of success).
- A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
- A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
- A failing grade in an academic examination.
- Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
- A piece of turf cut from grassland.
adj
verb
- Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- 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.
- To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- To neglect.
- To be unsuccessful.
- Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
prep
- Due or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
- By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
- Used in various more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc.
- In order to obtain or acquire.
- Towards; in the direction of.
- Intended to cure, remove or counteract; in order to cure, remove or counteract.
- So (that), in order to
- On behalf of.
- Used to introduce a subject within a to-infinitive clause.
- In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of.
- To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose.
- Because of.
- Over (a period of time).
- To be, or as being.
- Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
- Supporting, in favour of.
- In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something).
- Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence.
- In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with.
- In honor of; after.
- Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
- Indicating something desired or anticipated.
- Despite, in spite of.
- Directed at; intended to belong to.
- Throughout or across (a distance in space).
conj
particle
verb
- to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- To have on one's person.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- To be pregnant (with).
- To lead or guide.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
- To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To be transmitted; to travel.
- To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- To insult, to diss.
- To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- Carried interest.
- The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- The sky; cloud-drift.
verb
- To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
- To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- To cause to drop heavily.
- To flip; to reverse (an image).
intj
noun
- The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
- An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
- A flophouse.
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
adv
noun
- Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
- Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
- The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
- The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
- Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
verb
verb
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
adj
- Of an opportunity or outlook: having a reasonable chance of success; favourable, good.
- Of a musical instrument, sound, or a voice: clearly audible; clear, resounding, and often high-pitched.
- Of the face or eyes, or a smile: showing happiness or hopefulness; cheerful, lively.
- Of an object, surface, etc.: reflecting much light; having a high lustre; gleaming, shiny.
- Of an object, surface, etc.: having vivid colour(s); colourful.
- Of a colour: not muted or pale; bold, brilliant, vivid.
- Clearly apparent; conspicuous.
- In good spirits; happy, optimistic.
- Of climate or weather: not cloudy or gloomy; fair; also, of a period of time, the sky, etc.: characterized by much sunshine and good weather.
- Of conversation, writing, etc.: imaginative or sparkling with wit; clever, witty.
- Of a place: not dark; well-lit.
- Of a period of history or time: happy, prosperous, successful.
- Of light: brilliant, intense.
- Of a person: lively, vivacious.
- Glorious; illustrious.
- Of a scent or taste: not bland or mild; bold, sharp, strong.
- Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.
- Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
- Of a rhythm or tempo: lively, upbeat.
- Of a metal object or surface: lacking any protective coating or surface treatment for the prevention of corrosion.
- Of a substance: clear, transparent; also, pure, unadulterated; (specifically) of wine: free of suspended particles; not cloudy; fine.
- Of a room or other place: having acoustic qualities that tend to cause much echoing or reverberation of sound, particularly at high frequencies.
adv
- Referring to colour: with bold or vivid colours; brightly, boldly, vividly.
- In a bright manner; brightly, glowingly, luminously, lustrously.
verb
- Often followed by up: to become bright (in various senses); to brighten.
- Often followed by up: to cast light on (someone or something); to brighten, to illuminate.
- Often followed by up: to cause (someone or something) to be bright (in various senses); to brighten; specifically, to make (someone or something) energetic, or happy and optimistic.
noun
adj
- Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
- Acting in character.
- Fitted; covering; being worn.
- Acceptable, appropriate.
- Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- Menstruating.
- Performing according to schedule; taking place.
prep
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- So as to impact; against.
- Some time during the day of.
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- In the possession of.
- Inside (a vehicle) for the purpose of travelling.
- Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- Expressing figurative placement or attachment.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
- Having identical domain and codomain.
- At or in (a certain region or location).
- Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
- Under the influence of (a drug).
- Generated by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Against; in opposition to.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Covering.
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Paid for by.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At the date of.
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- Because of, or due to.
- Near; adjacent to; alongside.
- Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
- Without.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- So as to impart force to.
- Serving as a member of.
- At a given time after the start of something; at.
adv
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action).
- To an operating state.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
verb
noun
noun
- A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
- A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once.
- One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
- A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
- A losing proposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing bet or, analogously, a predictably fruitless task or errand).
- Something of poor quality.
- A contemptible or unfashionable person.
verb
- To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
- To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
- To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
- To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
- To form a cope or arch; to arch or bend; to bow.
noun
- The top part of a sand casting mold.
- A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure the hopelessness or despair of existence.
- Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
- A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.
- A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.
- The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.
- An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
- To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
- To flatulate or defecate.
- To produce an air current.
- To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
- To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
- (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
- To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- To be propelled by an air current.
- To sing.
- To blow from a gun.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- To make a sound as the result of being blown.
- To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- To cause the sudden destruction of.
- To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
- To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- To be very undesirable.
- To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- To recklessly squander.
- To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
adj
noun
- Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
- Cocaine.
- An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A damaging occurrence.
- Cannabis.
- A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
- An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- A bloom, state of flowering.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- A strong wind.
- The act of striking or hitting.
- A blowjob; fellatio.
- A display of anything brilliant or bright.
- Heroin.
- A chance to catch one's breath.
- A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
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