5
founder(verb, break, decline, ruin, destroy)
5
ground
4
fail(verb, decline, fall, slip, bomb)
4
wreck(verb, break, ruin, destroy, damage)
3
beach(verb, break, ruin, destroy, damage)
3
miscarry(verb, decline, fall, fail, slip)
3
sink(verb, break, ruin, destroy, damage)
3
strand(verb, break, ruin, destroy, damage)
2
abort(verb, decline, fall, fail, slip)
2
back wrong horse(verb, expression, idiom, decline, fall)
2
backslide(verb, decline, fall, fail, slip)
2
be defeated(verb, decline, fall, fail, slip)
2
be demoted(verb, decline, fall, fail, slip)
2
be felled
2
be found lacking(verb, decline, fall, fail, slip)
2
be in vain(verb, decline, fall, fail, slip)
2
be ruined(verb, decline, fall, fail, slip)
2
be unsuccessful(verb, decline, fall, slip, bomb)
2
blunder(verb, decline, fall, fail, slip)
2
break down(verb, expression, phrasal verb, decline, fall)
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