fall at the last hurdle
deathblow
abort
faceplant
give something up as a bad job
pound sand
crap out
mislaunch
clap out
holding pattern
bang one's head against a brick wall
error
kick at an open door
freeze
freeze up
go phut
knock off
miscarry
emptyhandedness
go to the wall
suspend
flame-out
seize up
piss up a rope
lay an egg
abortion
draw a blank
call it quits
deactivate
run a risk
piss in the wind
hit pause
botch
take a shit
exit policy
grind to a halt
lay eggs
die on the vine
crashproof
abend
fall down on
see out
bungle
that's all she wrote
putter around
antistaling
turf
bulletproof
time out
fatal
can
holdup
nonfinishing
interrupt
postlapsarian
delay
futility
conk out
misgrab
filose
omit
for the loss
get around to
death march
flop
go all the way
lay off
error out
quit
stop
cease
unpause
give up
discontinue
go belly-up
blocker
preemption
waste of time
exit
break
dead duck
check out
barf
bite on granite
law of diminishing returns
accelerate
continuance
closing form
game over
crush
like rats from a sinking ship
pack up
cancel
malfunction
break down
nonfulfilment
crashproof
antistaling
postlapsarian
filose
deathblow
abort
holding pattern
error
emptyhandedness
flame-out
abortion
exit policy
abend
fatal
holdup
nonfinishing
interrupt
delay
futility
death march
blocker
preemption
waste of time
dead duck
law of diminishing returns
continuance
closing form
nonfulfilment
fall at the last hurdle
faceplant
give something up as a bad job
pound sand
crap out
mislaunch
clap out
bang one's head against a brick wall
kick at an open door
freeze
freeze up
go phut
knock off
miscarry
go to the wall
suspend
seize up
piss up a rope
lay an egg
draw a blank
call it quits
deactivate
run a risk
piss in the wind
abort
hit pause
botch
take a shit
grind to a halt
lay eggs
die on the vine
fall down on
see out
bungle
putter around
turf
bulletproof
time out
can
conk out
misgrab
omit
get around to
flop
go all the way
lay off
error out
quit
stop
cease
unpause
give up
discontinue
go belly-up
exit
break
check out
barf
bite on granite
accelerate
crush
pack up
cancel
malfunction
break down
verb
noun
noun
- A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- Sin; transgression.
- One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
- The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
verb
verb
- (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
- To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
- To prevent from showing any visible change.
- Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
- To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
- Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
- To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
- To cause someone to become motionless.
- To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
- To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
- To be affected by extreme cold.
- (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
noun
- A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
- A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
- A period of intensely cold weather.
- A halt of a regular operation.
- The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
verb
- To halt one's work or other activity.
- To rob.
- To defeat.
- To have sex with.
- To remove, as a discount or estimate.
- To make a copy of, as of a design.
- To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
- To remove by hitting (something, someone)
- To kill.
- To accomplish hastily.
verb
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To halt something temporarily.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
noun
- Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc.
- The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus; either naturally as a spontaneous abortion (now usually called a miscarriage), or deliberately as an induced abortion.
- The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.
- Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
- A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.
verb
- To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
- To repair or mend clumsily.
- To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
noun
- An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
- A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
- A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
- A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
- A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
verb
- To cancel a project or product.
- To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
- To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
- To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
- To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
- To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
noun
- A racetrack, hippodrome; or the sport of racing horses.
- A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
- A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
- A block of peat used as fuel.
- A territory claimed by a person, gang, etc., as their own.
verb
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To have the potential to; be possible.
- To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- Used with verbs of perception.
- May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To shut up.
- To know how to; to be able to.
- To seal in a can.
- To hole the ball.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- The boss canned him for speaking out.
noun
- An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- Jail or prison.
- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- Buttocks.
- Headphones.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
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).
adv
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.
intj
verb
- put an end to a state or an activity
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- interrupt a trip
- cause to end
- prevent completion
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- render unsuitable for passage
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
noun
- the event of something ending
- the act of stopping something
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
verb
- put an end to a state or an activity
- lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime
- give up with the intent of never claiming again
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
- give up what is not strictly needed
- part with a possession or right
- leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- relinquish possession or control over
- give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
- stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- stop consuming
noun
- An application that stops / impedes unauthorised access to a programme.
- A gatekeeper who refuses the marketer access to the person they wish to contact.
- A bug or issue that prevents software from being released.
- A person who blocks (stretches or moulds) hats.
- A blocker bet.
- Any of various medications that block (inhibit) the activity of a chemical messenger or its receptors, such as cardiac conduction modifiers (e.g., alpha-blockers), gastric acid inhibitors (H₂ histamine blockers), puberty blockers, and others.
- A close-fitting rectangular glove worn by a goalie in multiple forms of hockey.
- One who blocks or impedes the movement of an opponent.
- One who prevents another user from contacting them electronically.
- A playing card, needed by one player, that is held by another.
noun
- The temporary interruption of a task without its cooperation and with the intention of resuming it at a later time.
- The purchase of something before it is offered for sale to others.
- The displacement of a lower jurisdiction's laws when they conflict with those of a higher jurisdiction.
- The purchase of public land by the occupant.
verb
- To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
- To depart from life; to die.
- To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
- To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
- Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
- To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
- To give up the lead.
- To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
noun
- A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
- An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
- An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
- The act of departing from life; death.
- The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
verb
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- 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.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- 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.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
- To die.
- To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
- To obtain (source code or other material) from a repository so that one can modify it and later check it back in.
- To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order.
- To visit the oche for the last time and clear one's remaining points to win the game.
- To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop.
- To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded.
- To leave in a hurry.
- To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.
- To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
noun
- The tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain amount of success has been achieved.
- A relationship between input and output, such that adding units of any one input (labour, capital etc.) to fixed amounts of the others will yield successively smaller increments of output.
verb
- To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- Grow; increase.
- To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- To cause a change of velocity.
- To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
adj
verb
- make ineffective
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- break into small pieces
- humiliate or depress completely
- crush or bruise
- become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
noun
verb
- To stop production of a programme.
- To cross out something with lines etc.
- To offset or equalize something.
- To kill.
- To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.
- To invalidate or annul something.
- To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
noun
verb
- make ineffective
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- lose control of one's emotions
- stop operating or functioning
- fall apart
- cause to fall or collapse
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
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