licking
defeat
triumph
victory
battle
cliffhanger
in vain
winlessness
lose
nonsuccess
snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
winless
miscarry
match made in hell
swing and a miss
dead heat
fail
go wrong
frustrated
unsucceeding
discomfited
defeated
thwarted
disappointed
default
foiled
strike out
luctation
washout
flop
dud
unbeatens
cooked
cough up
take it on the chin
no joy
defaitism
slay
take the count
trench warfare
unsuccessful
slim chance
to no avail
unthrive
fat chance
attempted
lurch
-athlon
noncompletion
skunk
decision
fighting chance
unlikely
consolation
last burst of fire
baffle
nonconcluding
bomb out
lost
foil
loss
whitewash
hollow victory
coronation
unended
heart attack
combat
make-or-break
push shit uphill
whip
unambitious
walk-over
ambitionless
win
endinglessness
luckless
last gasp
subdual
yielding
surrender
walkover
successlessly
upsetter
giving up
nonfailure
winning
unbeatable
close-run
Hail Mary pass
old college try
unsuccessfully
victorious
begeck

English words for 'an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest'

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