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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increases not proportional to more investment |
| Synonyms: | going belly up, law of diminishing returns, losings, losses |
| Main Entry: | topple |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall or knock over; overthrow |
| Synonyms: | bring down, capsize, collapse, do a pratfall, fall, falter, founder, go belly up, go down, hit the dirt, keel over, knock down, land, lose it, lurch, nose-dive, oust, overbalance, overturn, pitch, plunge, slump, stagger, stumble, take a header, teeter, tip over, totter, tumble, turn over, unhorse, unseat, upset |
| Antonyms: | place, put, straighten |
| Main Entry: | tumble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall or make fall awkwardly |
| Synonyms: | bowl down, bring down, descend, dip, disarrange, disarray, disorder, disturb, do a pratfall, down, drop, fall headlong, flatten, floor, flop, go belly up, go down, hit the dirt, jumble, keel, keel over, knock down, knock over, level, lose footing, lose it, mess up, nose-dive, pitch, plummet, plunge, roll, sag, skid, slip, slump, spill, stumble, take a header, tip over, topple, toss, trip, unsettle, upset |
| Main Entry: | kick the bucket |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | die |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, cease living, croak, expire, go belly up, go to the wall, go west, meet one's maker, pass away, pass on, shove off, succumb |
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