hit the skids
repine
bite the big one
scant
fall down
go out
go down the toilet
founder
disconsider
bomb
gronk
mis-
scantle
strike out looking
halt
go nowhere
waver
nonconform
truck
redecline
lose one's way
declensionist
blow up in one's face
blow up
downturn
kamikaze
pass on
come to nought
twilight
fall to the ground
declinable
take the count
die a death
thwart
flat out
miss the mark
dissatisfy
blow
hield
failingly
forbear
come a gutser
dis-
lay an egg
backfire
misplease
dive
omit
nonfailure
tank
unlast
flake
languish
blown
bomb out
go back on
turkey
underwhelm
let the grass grow under one's feet
luckless
unsuccessful
attempted
plough
take it on the chin
turn down
fall down on
not win for losing
go down in flames
draw a blank
fail
ebb
withsay
dys-
unsatisfy
give out
wither on the vine
fainaigue
droop
miss
break down
skip a beat
failer
retract
bottom fall out
plummet
fight a losing battle
knock back
fall back
ineffectivity
declinature
declinal
flunk
fall flat on one's face
take a dive
missuit
stagger
avoid
toboggan slide
declensionist
declinable
blown
luckless
unsuccessful
attempted
failingly
twilight
hield
dive
nonfailure
turkey
fail
failer
plummet
ineffectivity
declinature
declinal
toboggan slide
hit the skids
repine
bite the big one
scant
fall down
go out
go down the toilet
founder
disconsider
bomb
gronk
scantle
strike out looking
halt
go nowhere
waver
nonconform
truck
redecline
lose one's way
blow up in one's face
blow up
downturn
kamikaze
pass on
come to nought
fall to the ground
take the count
die a death
thwart
flat out
miss the mark
dissatisfy
blow
forbear
come a gutser
lay an egg
backfire
misplease
omit
tank
unlast
flake
languish
bomb out
go back on
underwhelm
let the grass grow under one's feet
plough
take it on the chin
turn down
fall down on
not win for losing
go down in flames
draw a blank
ebb
withsay
unsatisfy
give out
wither on the vine
fainaigue
droop
miss
break down
skip a beat
retract
bottom fall out
fight a losing battle
knock back
fail
fall back
flunk
fall flat on one's face
take a dive
missuit
stagger
avoid
verb
verb
- To fail.
- To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- To recede; to ebb.
- To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- To leave, especially a building.
- To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- To die.
- To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- To pass out of fashion.
- To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- To become extinct, to expire.
- To be eliminated from a competition.
- To be turned off or extinguished.
verb
- To fail; to miscarry.
- To flood with water and sink.
- To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
noun
- One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state).
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- Someone for whose parents one has no data.
verb
- To fail dismally.
- To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
- To crash.
- To move at high speed.
- To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
- To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
- To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
- To make oneself drunk.
- To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
- To make a smelly mess in a toilet.
adj
noun
- A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
- Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
- A woman’s breast.
- An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.
- A large amount of money.
- A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
- A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
- A success; the bomb.
- Any explosive charge.
- A long forward pass.
- A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
- A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
- A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
- An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
- An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
- A car in poor condition.
- A very attractive woman.
- A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
verb
- To falter.
- To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
- To bring to a stop.
- To limp; move with a limping gait.
- To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
- To stop marching.
- To stop either temporarily or permanently.
- To cause to discontinue.
- To waver.
noun
verb
- To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
- To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
- To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
- To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
- To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
- To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
noun
verb
- To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- To run over or through a tackler in American football.
- To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- To travel, to proceed.
- To trade, exchange; barter.
- To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
- To drive a truck.
- To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- To convey by truck.
- To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- To persist, to endure.
- To deceive; cheat; defraud.
noun
- Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
- Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.
- The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- Dirt or other messiness.
- A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.
- A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods
- A platform with wheels or casters.
- Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
verb
verb
- To fail disastrously.
- To blow something upward.
- To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- To blow the whistle.
- To suddenly get very angry.
- To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- To become popular very quickly.
- To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, etc., often exasperating the recipient.
- Receiving a large number of calls or notifications to the point of making the device effectively unusable.
- To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation.
- To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or using an air pump.
- To enlarge or zoom in.
verb
- To fail disastrously.
- To carry out a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
- To destroy (a ship, etc.) in a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
adj
noun
- A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.
- A vehicle used for a suicide attack, especially an aircraft.
- An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.
- One who takes excessive risks, as for example in a sporting event.
- A deliberate wipeout.
- One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft.
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Complete, total, downright.
- Lazy, sleeping.
- Very busy.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flat, out.
adv
noun
- A uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.
- A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down.
- A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise.
verb
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- 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 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.
noun
- A decline.
- A downward swooping motion.
- A swim under water.
- A jump or plunge into water.
- Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- A deliberate fall after a challenge.
- A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
verb
- To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- To descend sharply or steeply.
- To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- To undertake with enthusiasm.
- To swim under water.
- To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- To jump into water head-first.
verb
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
- To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
- To stand; to tolerate.
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
- To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
noun
- A prison cell, or prison generally.
- A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- a unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
- A reservoir or dam.
verb
- To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
- To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
- To break or chip off in a flake.
- To hit (another person).
- To lay out on a flake for drying.
- To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
noun
- A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A wire rack for drying fish.
- The meat of the gummy shark.
- Dogfish.
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- A paling; a hurdle.
- A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
- A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
noun
- A failure.
- The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
- A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).
- With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
- A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
- An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
- A foolish or inept person.
verb
- To fail (a student).
- To use a plough.
- To move with force.
- To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
- To run through, as in sailing.
- To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
- To have sex with, penetrate.
- To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
- To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
noun
noun
- 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 failure (something incapable of success).
- A piece of turf cut from grassland.
verb
- To be unsuccessful.
- 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.
- Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
adj
verb
- to fall away or decline
- to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- To cause to flow back.
- to flow back or recede
noun
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
- The receding movement of the tide.
- A gradual decline.
- A low state; a state of depression.
adj
verb
- To break down, get out of order, fail.
- To issue; to distribute.
- To announce (a hymn) to be sung; to read out (the words) for the congregation to sing.
- To complain, sulk, chastise.
- To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report.
- To desist.
- To put forth, utter (prayers).
- To send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth.
- To run short, come to an end.
- To desist through exhaustion of strength or patience.
verb
- To fail to achieve or attain.
- To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
- To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
- To fail to attend.
- To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
- To fail to score (a goal).
- To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
- To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
- To fail to help the hand of a player.
- To avoid; to escape.
- To fail to understand;
- To fail to hit.
noun
- A failure to obtain or accomplish.
- The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- A failure to hit.
- A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
- In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
- An unmarried woman; a girl.
- An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)
- A kept woman; a mistress.
verb
- To fail, especially socially or for political reasons.
- To demolish, to pull down. (intentionally)
- To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.
- To (cause to) decay, to decompose.
- To cease to function. (others)
- To stop functioning. (machine, computer, vehicle)
- To give in, relent, concede, or surrender.
- To render or to become weak and ineffective.
- To digest.
- To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
- To collapse, physically or in structure. (unexpectedly)
noun
verb
- To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
- To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
- To pull (something) back or back inside.
- Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.
- To draw (an extended body part) back into the body.
- To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.
- Originally in chess and now in other games as well: to take back or undo (a move); specifically (card games) to take back or withdraw (a card which has been played).
- To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.
- To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
- To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
- To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.
verb
verb
- To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To cause to reel or totter.
noun
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- One who attends a stag night.
- The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
verb
- To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
- To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
- To try not to do something or to have something happen
- to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from
- To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun
- To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
English words for 'To fail; to decline.'
As you may have noticed, above you will find words for "To fail; to decline.". Hover the mouse over the word you'd like to know more about to view its definition. Click 
to find a better fitting word. Finally, thanks to ChatGPT, the overall results have been greatly improved.
Recent Queries
man about town
to be accomplished
sandblast
emoluments
to enthrall.
walkie-talkie
A score of zero
A long time
SLIP
adept.
area code
parliamentarism
lineup
going easy (on someone)
to make doubly sure
plutocracy
to imbibe
to begin to open
A redhead
sacred.
To cast off
Purkinje cell
offstage
mountain shape
principally
straw-thatched roof
confectioner
statistics
to go to pieces
advance troops
to be harvested
to fascinate.
isn't
mothering
To appear
misshapen.
concentrated
remote place
arbitration
to operate
connector
to skin
to chase
insecurity
waist
stereotyped
taking turns
specimen
street
road