Financial Losses

3 words in this vocabulary list

verb to fail or break down suddenly

adverb in a sudden or unexpected manner

  • The old printer started to crap out after years of heavy use.
  • My phone always seems to crap out right when I need it the most.
  • I can't believe my car decided to crap out on me in the middle of nowhere.
  • When the economy started to crap out, many businesses struggled to stay afloat.

verb A word that expresses an action or a state of being. In this case, 'go wrong' is a verb phrase indicating that something is not going as planned or expected.

  • If we don't follow the proper procedures, things could easily go wrong.
  • Just be careful with the project, we don't want anything to go wrong.
  • I messed up and now everything's gone wrong.
  • Sometimes in life, things seem to go wrong no matter how hard we try to prevent it.

noun a place where a road or railway has been washed away by flooding

  • The heavy rain caused a washout of the roads, leading to traffic delays.
  • I forgot to bring my umbrella and got caught in a complete washout on my way home.
  • The party was a total washout, nobody showed up.
  • The team's performance was a washout, they lost every game of the season.