1. Manquer. Rater son but.
2. (Intrans.) (Familier) Échouer. Un projet qui rate.
(Irregular preterit, past participle: blew, blown).
1. To exhale hard.
2. To sound by having air expelled through a tube.
3. To cause to move by means of an air current.
4. To cause air to go in, on, or through.
5. (Weather) To be blowing or storming.
6. To free of obstruction by blowing air through.
7. To make a sound as if blown.
8. To play or sound a wind instrument.
9. To shape by blowing.
10. To lay eggs; of certain insects.
11. To cause to be revealed and jeopardized.
12. To burst suddenly.
13. To allow to regain its breath.
14. To spout moist air from the blowhole, as of some marine mammals.
To make a mess of, destroy or ruin; SYN. fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, blunder, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up.
To spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly.
1. To be unable.
2. To be unsuccessful; SYN. go wrong, miscarry.
3. To become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close.
4. To disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; SYN. betray.
5. To fail to do something; leave something undone; SYN. neglect.
6. To fail to get a passing grade; SYN. flunk, bomb, flush it.
7. To fall short in what is expected.
8. To get worse.
9. To judge unacceptable.
10. To prove insufficient; SYN. run out, give out.
11. To stop operating or functioning; SYN. give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down.
1. To make a mess of; botch
2. Blunder
1. To fail to hit the intended target.
2. To fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; SYN. lose.
3. To fail to reach or get to:
4. To fail to reach
5. To be absent
6. To fail to experience; SYN. escape.
7. To fail to attend an event or activity:
8. To be without; SYN. lack.
9. To feel or suffer from the lack of:
1. To handle awkwardly; bungle
2. To fail to hold (a ball) when attempting a catch
3. To fail to catch, as of a ball.
4. To act or do something stupidly or clumsily
5. To muff a ball — compare fumble