| has gloss | (verb) be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"
go wrong, fail, miscarry |
| lexicalization | eng: fail |
| lexicalization | eng: go wrong |
| lexicalization | eng: miscarry |
| has subclass | (verb) fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train"
miss |
| has subclass | (verb) fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
overreach |
| has subclass | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
botch, spoil, foul up, ball up, fluff, bollocks up, screw up, fuck up, mess up, bungle, louse up, fumble, muck up, bobble, flub, bodge, bollix, botch up, bollix up, bollocks, mishandle, muff, blow, bumble |
| has subclass | (verb) be unsuccessful in an endeavor; "The candidate struck out with his health care plan"
strike out |
| has subclass | (verb) suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside"
fall |
| has subclass | (verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise
shipwreck |
| has subclass | (verb) fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"
flop, founder, fall flat, fall through |
| has subclass | (verb) undergo failure or defeat
take it on the chin |