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View definitions for tanked

tanked

adjective as in high

adjective as in loaded

adjective as in wrecked

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Performance reviews took on new urgency for companies in the 1970s, as inflation soared and the economy tanked.

But concerns over legal challenges already tanked the party’s efforts in Maryland and the potential dilution of the Black vote has slowed moves in Illinois.

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Even when the marriage tanked, it wasn't easy for him to "watch her spiral", he writes.

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Prices tanked, hitting the bottom lines of Western producers and leading some to unload assets.

The next season, he agreed to the Rockets’ request that he not play, that he sit out and become a glorified assistant coach while the team tanked.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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