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[syn: fail, go wrong, miscarry]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
go wrong
v 1: be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?";
"The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" [syn:
fail, go wrong, miscarry] [ant: bring home the
bacon, come through, deliver the goods, succeed,
win]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "go wrong":
abort, backslide, be disappointing, be in error, be mistaken,
be wrong, break down, come short, conk out, degenerate, deviate,
err, fall, fall into error, fall short, fizzle, fizzle out,
give out, go amiss, go astray, go awry, go haywire, go kaput,
go to glory, go to hell, go to perdition, go to pot, go to ruin,
go to shivers, go to smash, go to smithereens, go under, go up,
lapse, misbelieve, miscalculate, miscarry, not hack it,
not make it, pack up, peter out, serve Mammon, slip, slip up,
stray, stumble, trip, turn sour, wander