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fails
verb as in be unsuccessful
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- back wrong horse
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- fall flat
- fall short
- fall through
- go astray
- go down
- go down swinging
- go downhill
- go up in smoke
- go wrong
- hit bottom
- hit the skids
- lose control
- lose out
- lose status
- meet with disaster
- miss the boat
- play into
- run aground
- turn out badly
verb as in abandon, forsake
verb as in lose money
Example Sentences
Dave Karger writes, “If ‘The Piano Lesson’ standout Danielle Deadwyler fails to make the cut after barely missing out two years ago for ‘Till,’ I’m not sure I will recover.”
But if ‘The Piano Lesson’ standout Danielle Deadwyler fails to make the cut after barely missing out two years ago for ‘Till,’ I’m not sure I will recover.”
“If we do not get ambition on mitigation, then everything else fails,” said Eamon Ryan, Ireland’s minister for the environment, speaking to journalists.
However, if the body fails to detect these changes or to initiate repair, the mutations could accumulate and over time lead to cancer.
"We hope it's possible to get ahead of the issue of failing weed control on the research and development side, because the cost of waiting until everything fails could be painful."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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