Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb fall_flat

1 sense of fall flat

Sense 1
fall through, fall flat, founder, flop -- (fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered")
       => fail, go wrong, miscarry -- (be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably")

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