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elaboration; finality; completeness &c. Completeness.
V. effect[transitive], effectuate; accomplish, achieve, compass, consummate, hammer out; bring to maturity, bring to perfection; perfect, complete; elaborate.
do, execute, make; go through, get through; work out, enact; bring about, bring to bear, bring to pass, bring through, bring to a head.
despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution; make good; be as good as one's word.
do thoroughly, not do by halves,go the whole hog; drive home; be in at the death &c. (persevere) Perseverance; carry through, play out, exhaust; fill the bill [U. S.].
finish, bring to a close &c. (end) End; wind up, stamp, clinch, seal, set the seal on, put the seal; give the final touch &c.n. to; put the last, put the finishing hand to, put the finishing touches on; crown, crown all; cap.
[intransitive] ripen, culminate; come to a head, come to a crisis; come to its end; die a natural death, die of old age; run its course, run one's race; touch the goal, reach the goal, attain the goal; reach &c. (arrive) Arrival [Terminal motion at]; get in the harvest.
Adj. completing, final; concluding, conclusive; crowning &c. v.; exhaustive.
done, completed &c. v.; done for, sped, wrought out; highly wrought &c. (preparation) Preparation; thorough &c. Completeness; ripe &c. (ready) Preparation.
Adv. completely &c.(thoroughly) Completeness; to crown all, out of hand.
Phr. the race is run; actum est[Lat]; finis coronat opus[Lat]; consummatum est[Lat]; c'en est fait[Fr]; it is all over; the game is played out, the bubble has burst; aussitot dit aussitot fait[Fr]; aut non tentaris aut perfice [Lat][Ovid].
nonperformance, inexecution[obs3]; neglect &c. Neglect.
V. not complete &c. Completion; leave unfinished &c. adj., leave undone, drop, put down; neglect &c. Neglect; let alone, let slip; lose sight of (forget) Oblivion.
fall short of &c. Shortcoming [Motion short of]; do things by halves, parboil, scotch the snake not lull it; hang fire; be slow to; collapse &c. Shortcoming [Motion short of].
drop out.
Adj. not completed &c. v.; incomplete &c. Incompleteness; uncompleted, unfinished, unaccomplished, unperformed, unexecuted; sketchy, addle.
in progress, in hand; ongoing, going on, proceeding; on one's hands; on the anvil; in the fire, in the oven.
parboiled, half-baked.
Adv. re infecta[Lat].
trump card; hit, stroke, score; lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good stroke; direct hit, bull's eye; goal, point, touchdown; home run, homer, hole-in-one, grand slam; killing[make money], windfall bold stroke, master stroke; ten strike [U. S.]; coup de maitre[Fr], checkmate; half the battle, prize; profit &c. (acquisition) Acquisition.
continued success; good fortune &c. (prosperity) Prosperity; time well spent.
advantage over; upper hand, whip hand; ascendancy, mastery; expugnation[Obs], conquest, victory, subdual[obs3]; subjugation &c. (subjection) Subjection.
triumph &c. (exultation) Boasting; proficiency &c. (skill) Skill.
conqueror, victor, winner; master of the situation, master of the position, top of the heap, king of the hill; achiever, success, success story.
V. succeed; be successful &c. adj.; gain one's end, gain one's ends; crown with success.
gain a point, attain a point, carry a point, secure a point, win a point, win an object; get there *[U. S.]; manage to, contrive to; accomplish &c. (effect, complete) Completion; do wonders, work wonders; make a go of it.
come off well, come off successful, come off with flying colors; make short work of; take by storm, carry by storm; bear away the bell; win one's wings, win one's spurs, win the battle; win the day, carry the day, gain the day, gain the prize, gain the palm; have the best of it, have it all one's own way, have the game in one's owns hands, have the ball at one's feet, have one on the hop; walk over the course; carry all before one, remain in possession of the field; score a success.
speed; make progress &c. (advance) Progression [Motion forward; progressive motion]; win one's way, make one's way, work one's way, find one's way; strive to some purpose; prosper &c. Prosperity; drive a roaring trade; make profit &c. (acquire) Acquisition; reap the fruits, gather the fruits, reap the benefit of, reap the harvest; strike oil * [U. S.], gain a windfall; make one's fortune, get in the harvest, turn to good account; turn to account &c. (use) Use.
triumph, be triumphant; gain a victory, obtain a victory, gain an advantage; chain victory to one's car; nail a coonskin to the wall.
surmount a difficulty, overcome a difficulty, get over a difficulty, get over an obstacle &c. Hindrance; se tirer d'affaire[Fr]; make head against; stem the torrent, stem the tide, stem the current; weather the storm, weather a point; turn a corner, keep one's head above water, tide over; master; get the better of, have the better of, gain the better of, gain the best of, gain the upper hand, gain the ascendancy, gain the whip hand, gain the start of; distance; surpass &c. (superiority) Superiority [Supremacy].
defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow, overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset[obs3], override, overreach; outwit, outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst; put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat[Fr], put out of court.
silence, quell, nonsuit[obs3], checkmate, upset, confound, nonplus, stalemate, trump; baffle &c. (hinder) Hindrance; circumvent, elude; trip up, trip up the heels of; drive into a corner, drive to the wall; run hard, put one's nose out of joint.
settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink, shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate &c. (subject) Subjection; reduce; make the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot, put an extinguisher upon.
answer, answer the purpose; avail, prevail, take effect, do, turn out well, work well, take, tell, bear fruit; hit it, hit the mark, hit the right nail on the head; nick it; turn up trumps, make a hit; find one's account in.
Adj. succeeding &c. v.; successful; prosperous &c. Prosperity; triumphant; flushed with success, crowned with success; victorious, on top; set up; in the ascendant; unbeaten &c. (see beat &c. v.); well-spent; felicitous, effective, in full swing.
Adv. successfully &c. adj.; well flying colors, in triumph, swimmingly; a merveille[Fr], beyond all hope; to some purpose, to good purpose; to one's heart's content.
Phr. veni vidi vici[Lat], the day being one;s own, one's star in the ascendant; omne tulit punctum[Lat].
bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria[obs3][Lat]; cede repugnanti cedendo victor abibis [Lat][Ovid]; chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune[Fr]; dies faustus[Lat]; l'art de vaincre est celui de mepriser la mort[Fr]; omnia vincit amor [Lat: love conquers all]; "peace hath her victories no less renowned than war" [Milton]; "the race by vigor not by vaunts is won" [Pope]; vincit qui patitur[Lat]; vincit qui se vincit[Lat]; "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet" [Mark Twain].
blunder &c. (mistake) Error; fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication[Obs], footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas[Fr], titubation[obs3], bévue[Fr], faute[Fr], lurch; botchery &c. (want of skill) Unskillfulness[obs3]; scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk [U. S.].
mishap &c. (misfortune) Adversity; split, collapse, smash, blow, explosion.
repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating, drubbing; quietus, nonsuit[obs3], subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate.
fall, downfall, ruin, perdition; wreck &c. (destruction) Destruction [Nonproduction]; deathblow; bankruptcy &c. (nonpayment) Nonpayment.
losing game, affaire flambée.
victim; bankrupt; flunker[obs3], flunky [U. S.].
V. fail; be unsuccessful &c. adj.; not succeed &c. Success; make vain efforts &c.n.; do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk [U. S.]; lose one's labor, take nothing by one's motion; bring to naught, make nothing of; wash a blackamoor white &c. (impossible) Impossibility; roll the stones of Sisyphus &c. (useless) Inutility; do by halves &c. (not complete) Noncompletion; lose ground &c. (recede) Progression [Motion forward; progressive motion]; fall short of &c. Shortcoming [Motion short of].
miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip &c., n. blunder &c. Error, make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it[Obs], miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear &c. (blunder, mismanage) Unskillfulness.
limp, halt, hobble, titubate[obs3]; fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief &c. (adversity) Adversity; go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated &c. Success; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb &c. (submit) Submission; not have a leg to stand on.
come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out [Obs]; fall to the ground, fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down &c. (descent) Ascent [Motion upwards]; go to wrack and ruin &c. (destruction) Destruction [Nonproduction].
go amiss, go wrong, go cross, go hard with, go on a wrong tack; go on ill, come off ill, turn out ill, work ill; take a wrong term, take an ugly term; take an ugly turn, take a turn for the worse.
be all over with, be all up with; explode; dash one's hopes &c. (disappoint) Disappointment [Failure of expectation]; defeat the purpose; sow the wind and reap the whirlwind, jump out of the frying pan into the fire, go from the frying pan into the fire.
Adj. unsuccessful, successless[obs3]; failing, tripping &c.v.; at fault; unfortunate &c. Adversity.
abortive, addle, stillborn; fruitless, bootless; ineffectual, ineffective, inconsequential, trifling, nugatory; inefficient &c. (impotent) Impotence; insufficient &c. Insufficiency; unavailing &c. (useless) Inutility; of no effect.
aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited[obs3]; foiled; defeated &c. Success; struck down, borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with; ploughed, plowed, plucked.
lost, undone, ruined, broken; bankrupt &c. (not paying) Nonpayment; played out; done up, done for; dead beat, ruined root and branch, flambe[obs3], knocked on the head; destroyed &c. Destruction [Nonproduction].
frustrated, crossed, unhinged, disconcerted dashed; thrown off one's balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends[Obs]; unhorsed, in a sorry plight; hard hit.
stultified, befooled[obs3], dished, hoist on one's own petard; victimized, sacrificed.
wide of the mark &c. (error) Error; out of one's reckoning &c. (inexpectation) Inexpectation[obs3]; left in the lurch; thrown away &c. (wasted) Waste; unattained; uncompleted &c. Noncompletion.
Adv. unsuccessfully &c. adj.; to little or no purpose, in vain, re infecta[Lat].
Phr. the bubble has burst, , "the jig is up", "the game is up" [Cymbeline]; all is lost; the devil to pay; parturiunt montes &c. (disappointment) Disappointment [Failure of expectation][Lat]; dies infaustus[Lat]; tout est perdu hors l'honneur[Fr].
triumph &c. (celebration) Celebration; flying colors &c. (show) Ostentation.
monumentum aere perennius [Lat][obs3][Hor.].
Phr. "for valor."
luck; good luck, run of luck; sunshine; fair weather, fair wind; palmy days, bright days, halcyon days; piping times, tide, flood, high tide.
Saturnia regna[Lat], Saturnian age; golden time, golden age; bed of roses, fat city [coll.]; fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes.
made man, lucky dog, enfant gate[Fr], spoiled child of fortune.
upstart, parvenu, skipjack[obs3], mushroom.
V. prosper, thrive, flourish; be prosperous &c adj.; drive a roaring trade, do a booming business; go on well, go on smoothly, go on swimmingly; sail before the wind, swim with the tide; run smooth, run smoothly, run on all fours.
rise in the world, get on in the world; work one's way, make one's way; look up; lift one's head, raise one's head, make one's fortune, feather one's nest, make one's pile.
flower, blow, blossom, bloom, fructify, bear fruit, fatten.
keep oneself afloat; keep one's head above water, hold one's head above water; land on one's feet, light on one's feet, light on one's legs, fall on one's legs, fall on one's feet; drop into a good thing; bear a charmed life; bask in the sunshine; have a good time of it, have a fine time of it; have a run of luck; have the good fortune &c. n. to; take a favorable turn; live on the fat of the land, live off the fat of the land, live in clover.
Adj. prosperous; thriving &c. v.; in a fair way, buoyant; well off, well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich &c. Wealth; in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny side of the hedge.
auspicious, propitious, providential.
palmy, halcyon; agreeable &c. Pleasurableness [Capability of giving pleasure; cause or source of pleasure]; couleur de rose[Fr].
Adv. prosperously &c. adj.; swimmingly; as good luck would have it; beyond all hope.
Phr. one's star in the ascendant, all for the best, one's course runs smooth.
chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune[Fr]; donec eris felix multos numerabis amicos [Lat][Ovid]; felicitas multos habet amicos[Lat]; felix se nescit amari [Lat][Lucan]; 'good luck go with thee [Henry V]; nulli est homini perpetuum bonum [Lat][Plautus].
trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure.
pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint; hard times, bad times, sad times; rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind; visitation, infliction; affliction &c. (painfulness) Painfulness [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain]; bitter pill; care, trial; the sport of fortune.
mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune; disaster, calamity, catastrophe; accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub; backset[obs3], comedown, setback [U. S.].
losing game; falling &c. v.; fall, downfall; ruination, ruinousness; undoing; extremity; ruin &c. (destruction) Destruction [Nonproduction].
V. be ill off &c. adj.; go hard with; fall on evil, fall on evil days; go on ill; not prosper &c. Prosperity.
go downhill, go to rack and ruin &c. (destruction) Destruction [Nonproduction], go to the dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
Adj. unfortunate, unblest[obs3], unhappy, unlucky; improsperous[obs3], unprosperous; hoodooed [U. S.]; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor &c. Poverty; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need.
planet-struck, devoted; born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth; ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened.
adverse, untoward; disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.
V. jog on; go fairly, go quietly, go peaceably, go tolerably, go respectably, get on fairly, get on quietly, get on peaceably, get on tolerably, get on respectably.
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