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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go under, fail |
| Synonyms: | abort, be lost, break down, collapse, come to nothing, fall, fall through, go down, go lame, go to bottom, lurch, miscarry, misfire, sink, sprawl, stagger, stumble, submerge, submerse, trip |
| Notes: | founder means to sink, while flounder means to flail helplessly |
| Antonyms: | accomplish, achieve, succeed |
| Main Entry: | submerse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sink |
| Synonyms: | bore*, bring down, capsize, cast down, cave in, couch, decline, demit, depress, descend, dig*, dip, disappear, drill, drive, droop, drop*, drown, ebb, engulf, excavate, fall, flounder, force down, founder, go down, go to the bottom, immerse, lay, let down, lower, overturn, overwhelm, plummet, plunge, put down*, ram, regress, run, sag, scuttle, set, settle, shipwreck, slope, slump, stab, stick*, stoop, submerge, subside, swamp, thrust, tip over, touch bottom, wreck |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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