- Complete failure - The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a
portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a
freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad,
where the earth has been washed away.
- Cave in - Fall in - Implosion - To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow
vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or
parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a
flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses. - To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow
when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as,
Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left
Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success
and importance. - A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow
vessel. - A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any
kind; a breakdown.
- The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the
expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of
sustaining life; miscarriage. - The immature product of an untimely birth. - Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an
imperfect formation or is absorbed. - Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or
anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a
complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion.