cause+to+fail

  • 71vitiate — To impair; to make void or voidable; to cause to fail of force or effect. To destroy or annul, either entirely or in part, the legal efficacy and binding force of an act or instrument; as when it is said that fraud vitiates a contract …

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  • 72screw up — ► screw up 1) crush into a tight mass. 2) informal cause to fail or go wrong. 3) informal make emotionally or mentally disturbed. 4) summon up (one s courage). Main Entry: ↑screw …

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  • 73goose egg — noun a quantity of no importance it looked like nothing I had ever seen before reduced to nil all the work we had done we racked up a pathetic goose egg it was all for naught I didn t hear zilch about it • Syn: ↑nothing, ↑ …

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  • 74damn´er — damn «dam», verb, noun, adjective, adverb, interjection. –v.t. 1. to declare (something) to be bad or inferior; condemn: »The critics damned the new book. SYNONYM(S): denounce, proscribe, execrate. 2. to cause to fail; ruin: » …

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  • 75de|feat — «dih FEET», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to win a victory over; overcome: »to defeat an army, to defeat an opponent in an election. Washington defeated Cornwallis at Yorktown. 2. Figurative. to make useless; cause to fail: »to defeat someone s plans. His …

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  • 76whip|saw — «HWIHP S», noun, verb, adjective. –n. a long, narrow saw with its ends held in a frame, used especially for curved work. –v.t. 1. to cut with a whipsaw. 2. U.S. Informal, Figurative. a) to defeat or cause to fail in two opposite ways at the same… …

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  • 77failure — fail|ure W2S2 [ˈfeıljə US ər] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(lack of success)¦ 2¦(unsuccessful person/thing)¦ 3 failure to do something 4¦(business)¦ 5¦(machine/body part)¦ 6¦(crops)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1.) ¦(LACK OF SUCCESS)¦ [U and C] a lack of success in achieving or… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 78derail the search for peace — cause the attempt to create peace to fail …

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  • 79sabotage the peace process — cause the peace process to fail …

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  • 80Disasters — ▪ 2009 Introduction Aviation       January 23, Poland. A Spanish built CASA transport plane carrying members of the Polish air force home from a conference on flight safety in Warsaw crashes near the town of Miroslawiec; all 20 aboard are killed …

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