| VERB | social | go wrong, fail, miscarry | be unsuccessful |
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| Meaning | Be unsuccessful. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | fail, miscarry | |
| Narrower | botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up | make a mess of, destroy or ruin |
| fall | Suffer defeat, failure, or ruin | |
| fall through, fall flat, founder, flop | fail utterly | |
| miss | fail to reach or get to | |
| overreach | fail by aiming too high or trying too hard | |
| shipwreck | Suffer failure, as in some enterprise | |
| strike out | Be unsuccessful in an endeavor / endeavor | |
| take it on the chin | Undergo failure or defeat / defeat | |
| Opposite | succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods | attain success or reach a desired goal / goal |
| Spanish | fallar, fracasar, zozobrar | |
| Catalan | equivocar-se, fallar, fracassar | |
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