Fails synonyms and antonyms
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To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
To divulge in a breach of confidence:
To be discarded or abolished:
(Informal) To desire something greatly:
To drop a bomb or bombs.
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To fail (a drug test, as for a performance enhancing substance).
To lose by investing
Having a brief, regularly occurring, apparently backward movement in the sky as viewed from Earth against the background of fixed stars. Retrograde movement of the planets is caused by the differing orbital velocities of Earth and the body observed. For example, the outer planets normally appear to drift gradually eastward in the sky in relation to the fixed stars; that is, they appear night after night to fall a little farther behind the neighboring stars in their westward passage across the sky. However, at certain times a particular planet appears briefly to speed up and move westward a bit more quickly than the neighboring stars. This happens as Earth, in its faster inner orbit, overtakes and passes the planet in its slower outer orbit; the appearance of moving counter to its usual eastward drift is thus simply the result of perspective as seen from Earth.
To wander from or become ignorant of:
To be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor:
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The definition of lack is to have an absence of something that should be there.
To founder is defined as to fall or fail.
(Informal) To close, especially for lack of financial success; fail.
To foil is defined as to keep something from happening.
In certain poker games, to have attained (a hand) as a result of the first three community cards that are dealt face up at the same time:
To lose vigor or strength; weaken or diminish:
To lose strength, certainty, etc.; weaken
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To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.
To frustrate or thwart:
Deteriorate is defined as to make or become worse or lower in value or quality.
To withdraw from, especially in spite of a responsibility or duty; forsake:
To lose a contest by default
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To cause to become financially bankrupt.
To hold in abeyance; defer:
(Games) To lose at blackjack by exceeding a score of 21.
(Intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
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To refuse to pay a claim embodied in a written document, such as a check or other negotiable instrument, when presented; to treat disrespectfully an object considered to have a public or sacred nature, such as a flag.
(Intransitive) To become worse; to get worse; to deteriorate.
To become less; decrease:
To give displeasure or offense.
To slide involuntarily and lose one's balance or foothold.
To slide backward in morals or religious enthusiasm; become less virtuous, less pious, etc.
To fail to ignite properly or at the right time
Blunder means to say or do something in a careless or stupid way.
To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
(Archaic) To go or come to ruin
To make or become weak or weaker
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Waste is defined as to destroy, wear away or use up.
To lose strength or vitality; wane:
To fall below a normal or desirable state, especially functionally or morally; deteriorate:
To fail to do; neglect
passes (antonym)
To pronounce; utter:
manages (antonym)
To have charge of; direct or administer:
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obtains (antonym)
To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way. [from 15th c.]
wins (antonym)
To achieve or obtain by effort:
gains (antonym)
To obtain through effort or merit; achieve:
prospers (antonym)
Prosper is defined as to do well or succeed in life.
accomplishes (antonym)
To do; succeed in doing; complete (a task, time, or distance)
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reaches (antonym)
(Naut.) To sail on a reach
achieves (antonym)
The definition of achieve means to accomplish a goal or to do something you set out to do.
merits (antonym)
To earn; deserve.
completes (antonym)
To complete is to finish something, to make something whole or see a task through to the end.
finishes (antonym)
To complete something being done
delivers (antonym)
Deliver is defined as to bring to someone or to give birth.
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captures (antonym)
To succeed in preserving in lasting form:
thrives (antonym)
To grow vigorously or luxuriantly; improve physically
triumphs (antonym)
To succeed, win, or attain ascendancy.
decays (related)
To fall into ruin:
helps (related)
To refrain from; avoid or resist. Used with can or cannot:
increases (related)
Increase is defined as to become bigger or greater.
doth (related)
To set or style (the hair).
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