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Verb
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Present participle for to be less satisfactory than expected
disappointing
failing
failing to meet
failing to reach
proving inadequate
failing to live up to
not coming up to scratch
not making the grade
leaving much to be desired
letting down
“Government should use civilized stratagems to arrest those who fall short of the law.”
Verb
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Present participle for to have a disastrous outcome
coming to grief
breaking down
falling through
going awry
going wrong
meeting with failure
miscarrying
bombing
collapsing
coming unstuck
failing
falling flat
fizzling out
flopping
folding
foundering
going phut
meeting with disaster
coming a cropper
coming to naught
coming to nothing
fizzling
going pear-shaped
tanking
biting the dust
going on the rocks
going to the wall
going up in smoke
coming to a bad end
coming to a sticky end
going down like a lead balloon
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Verb
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Present participle for to fail, especially in spectacular fashion
flunking
failing
flopping
foundering
missing
busting
bombing
collapsing
cratering
folding
plowingUS
ploughingUK
tanking
underperforming
underachieving
flaming out
screwing up
striking out
washing out
doing something badly
dropping out
not making the grade
not passing
not coming up to scratch
falling flat
missing the mark
fizzling
misfiring
miscarrying
floundering
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Verb
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(of a game or contest) Present participle for to fail to win
losing
suffering defeat
capitulating
coming off second-best
failing
falling
succumbing
yielding
bowing out
ceding
collapsing
going down
keeling
losing out
relenting
relinquishing
abdicating
admitting defeat
backing down
bowing
coming to grief
coming up short
defaulting
getting the worst
giving in
going under
having the worst
laying down arms
taking a licking
throwing in the towel
coming a cropper
crashing out
meeting one's Waterloo
suffering
taking a beating
dropping a bundle
Verb
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Present participle for to deny or be denied (of something)
going without
abstaining from
refraining from
abstaining
cutting out
denying oneself
forgoing
giving up
going hungry
lacking
lacking for something
needing
suffering deprivation
swearing off
wanting
doing without
going short
not having
Verb
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Present participle for to diminish in intensity or severity, especially gradually
waning
diminishing
declining
decreasing
dwindling
ebbing
subsiding
dimming
fading
lessening
shrinking
sinking
abating
failing
weakening
flagging
falling
slackening
withering
atrophying
contracting
drooping
receding
tapering off
attenuating
dissolving
dropping
fading away
petering out
remitting
slumping
tailing off
vanishing
winding down
collapsing
crumbling
de-escalating
degenerating
deteriorating
disintegrating
easing
evaporating
falling off
growing faint
lowering
moderating
palling
relenting
tapering
becoming weak
evanescing
giving in
giving way
melting away
dying out
draining away
dropping off
falling away
going downhill
letting up
phasing down
ratcheting down
dying away
dying down
easing off
getting smaller
slacking off
wasting away
drawing to a close
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Verb
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Present participle for to fail to fulfill the hopes or expectations of
letting down
disappointing
failing
dissatisfying
frustrating
disillusioning
disenchanting
failing to satisfy
breaking your word
falling short of expectations
dashing hopes
Adjective
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Not up to a satisfactory standard
disappointing
inadequate
unsatisfactory
inferior
insufficient
lame
poor
underwhelming
deficient
mediocre
pathetic
pitiful
substandard
anticlimactic
sorry
duff
ropy
rubbish
unacceptable
unfulfilling
unsatisfying
unworthy
bathetic
disagreeable
displeasing
distasteful
failing
ineffective
uninteresting
disillusioning
second-rate
below par
not good enough
not much cop
not up to scratch
not up to snuff
not all it's cracked up to be
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