scheitern

Related words

• den Bach runtergehen

  to go down the drain

• mißlingen

  to fail

• in den Sand setzen

  To ruin, to sabotage

• fehlschlagen

  to fail

• schiefgehen

  To go wrong means that something doesn't go as planned or fails.

• auf Sand gebaut haben

  Built on sand

• die Suppe versalzen

  To spoil the broth

• fallieren

  To go bankrupt, to fail

• missglücken

  To fail

• mißglücken

  to fail

• schieflaufen

  to go wrong

• megaloman

  Megalomanic means having delusions of grandeur, an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or power.

• Misserfolg

  Failure

• Debakel

  Debacle

• Niederlage

  Defeat

• untergehen

  to sink

• Unterschätzung

  Underestimation

• stranden

  to strand

• versagen

  to fail

• misslingen

  Fail

• verfehlen

  To miss

• den Bach runter gehen

  To go down the drain

• abblitzen

  To be rebuffed

• durchfallen

  To fail (an exam)

• auf der Strecke bleiben

  to fall by the wayside, to fail

• fehlgehen

  To go wrong

• versanden

  To run aground, to fail

• im Sand verlaufen

  To fall through

• defätistisch

  Defeatist means adopting a pessimistic attitude, often associated with the expectation of failure.

• Untätigkeit

  Inactivity, idleness

• flöten gehen

  To go down the drain

• ins Wasser gehen

  To fall through

• Irrsal

  Wandering, confusion, failure

• auf keinen grünen Zweig kommen

  The idiom 'not to get anywhere' means not to be successful or not to make progress.

• an einem seidenen Faden hängen

  To hang by a thread

• krachen

  Crash

Example sentences with “scheitern”

1. Der Plan ist gescheitert. (The plan failed.)

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