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implosion
noun as in failure
Strong matches
noun as in insolvency
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in nonfeasance
Strong matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- default
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- delinquency
- dereliction
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- fiasco
- flop
- frustration
- inadequacy
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- neglect
- nonperformance
- omission
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- stalemate
- stoppage
- turkey
- washout
- wreck
noun as in unsuccess
Weak matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- false step
- faux pas
- fiasco
- flash in the pan
- flop
- frustration
- inadequacy
- lead balloon
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- sinking ship
- stalemate
- stoppage
- total loss
- turkey
- unsuccessfulness
- washout
- wreck
noun as in unsuccessfulness
Weak matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- false step
- faux pas
- fiasco
- flash in the pan
- flop
- frustration
- inadequacy
- lead balloon
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- sinking ship
- stalemate
- stoppage
- total loss
- turkey
- unsuccess
- washout
- wreck
Example Sentences
No one should try to view the implosion in person, county officials said.
The implosion was the indirect result of the collapse, one day previously, of Topshop owner Arcadia Group.
The changes come after the implosion of Wirecard, the fintech that was a DAX member for two years despite repeated allegations of irregularities.
This has tallied not with the 20th century but more pointedly with the period between the start of the Cold War and the current implosion of the liberal world order.
In fact, only in the 1970s and then again following the dot-com bubble implosion were there sustained periods of weak dollar and weak stock price performance, as the chart here shows.
After the implosion of the project, Harris relocated to a commercial apple orchard in upstate New York.
And with Still-House it was the act of striking the match…the photographs of flames…the violent implosion of the oil barrels.
The tsunami of value destruction would dwarf the Lehman Brothers implosion, says Daniel Gross.
The last four years have witnessed an astonishing implosion of a previously unquestioned investment strategy.
But these stories always end the same way, with the implosion of the would-be demagogue.
In ten minutes, she had the slow-implosion capsule out of the hopper of a battered old Aldebaranese cargo ship.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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