mis-
lay an egg
bite the big one
fall flat on one's face
fall down
go out
go down the toilet
waver
scantle
let the grass grow under one's feet
backfire
go nowhere
repine
founder
beef
strike out looking
miss
lose one's way
blow
require improvement
bomb
go down in flames
scant
gronk
come a cropper
bottom fall out
hit the skids
take the count
go wrong
fight a losing battle
lose ground
fimble
truck
thwart
jinx
blow up
kamikaze
blow up in one's face
stymie
drop the ball
fall back
lay eggs
go back on
postfailure
take a dive
take on water
halt
omit
miss the mark
dys-
do-or-die
dis-
fail
copout
premortem
unfulfillment
inefficacy
die on the vine
failingness
ineffectiveness
come a gutser
conk
borkage
plough
attempted
faultable
wither on the vine
melt down
nonfailure
dwalm
underachieve
bollocks up
draw a blank
miscarry
forfeit
fainaigue
no-win
failure to prepare is preparing to fail
goat rope
disconsider
out of the woods
dead duck
unmove
fumblingness
bungle
be riding for a fall
mess up
failable
default
in vain
turn turtle
doom
fall
disinvigorate
slip up
break
pansy
flat out
postfailure
do-or-die
attempted
faultable
no-win
failable
in vain
fail
copout
premortem
unfulfillment
inefficacy
failingness
ineffectiveness
borkage
nonfailure
goat rope
dead duck
fumblingness
default
lay an egg
bite the big one
fall flat on one's face
fall down
go out
go down the toilet
waver
scantle
let the grass grow under one's feet
backfire
go nowhere
repine
founder
beef
strike out looking
miss
lose one's way
blow
require improvement
bomb
go down in flames
scant
gronk
come a cropper
bottom fall out
hit the skids
take the count
go wrong
fight a losing battle
lose ground
fimble
truck
thwart
jinx
blow up
kamikaze
blow up in one's face
stymie
drop the ball
fall back
lay eggs
go back on
take a dive
take on water
halt
omit
miss the mark
die on the vine
come a gutser
conk
plough
wither on the vine
melt down
dwalm
underachieve
bollocks up
draw a blank
miscarry
forfeit
fainaigue
disconsider
unmove
bungle
be riding for a fall
mess up
turn turtle
doom
fall
disinvigorate
slip up
break
pansy
flat out
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 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; 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 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
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 at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- (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.
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.
adj
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
det
adj
noun
verb
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
noun
- A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
- An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
- A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
adj
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
- 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
noun
- A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
- A failure (something incapable of success).
- 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.
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.
adj
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
verb
- To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
- To fail to keep an obligation.
- To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
- To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
adj
noun
- Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
- A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
- A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.
noun
- An ill-advised solution to contain a problem; a solution that will eventually fail.
- A convoluted issue that is contested by many parties.
- A rodeo event in which competitors attempt to lasso a goat, usually for younger participants.
- A confusing, disorganized situation often attributed to or marked by human error.
verb
- To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
- To damage; injure.
- To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
- To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
- To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
- To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
- To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
- To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.
noun
- The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
- The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
- The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- the original software programming settings as set by the factory
- A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
- A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
- A loss incurred by failing to compete.
verb
verb
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- come under, be classified or included
- fall from clouds
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- be captured
- occur at a specified time or place
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- yield to temptation or sin
- lose office or power
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- move in a specified direction
- be due
- lose one's chastity
- to be given by right or inheritance
- come into the possession of
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be inherited by
- slope downward
- lose an upright position suddenly
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- fall or flow in a certain way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- be cast down
- come out; issue
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- begin vigorously
- go as if by falling
- come as if by falling
noun
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a downward slope or bend
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a movement downward
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
verb
- cause the failure or ruin of
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- 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
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
verb
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.
adj
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