COME TO GRIEF

Meaning of COME TO GRIEF in English

( Colloq. )

Fail, result disastrously.

Be ruined, meet with disaster, come to a bad end.

Soule. Dictionary of English synonyms. Словарь английских синонимов. 2012

COME TO GRIEF — phrasal to encounter misfortune (as calamity, defeat, or ruin)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
COME TO GRIEF — phrasal : to encounter misfortune (as calamity, defeat, or ruin) especially when deserved or in some degree the result of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
COME TO GRIEF — meet with disaster; be unsuccessful; fail
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
COME TO GRIEF — : to encounter misfortune (as calamity, defeat, or ruin) his campaign came to grief
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
COME TO GRIEF — to encounter misfortune (as calamity, defeat, or ruin) <his campaign came to grief >
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
COME TO GRIEF — have an accident; meet with disaster. → grief
Concise Oxford English vocab
COME TO GRIEF — ( informal ) 1. to end in total failure 2. to be harmed in an accident : Several pedestrians came …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
COME TO GRIEF — {v. phr.} To have a bad accident or disappointment; meet trouble or ruin; end badly; wreck; fail. * /Bill came …
Slang English vocab
COME TO GRIEF — FAIL, meet with disaster, miscarry, go wrong, go awry, fall through, fall flat, founder, come to nothing, come to naught; …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
COME TO GRIEF — {v. phr.} To have a bad accident or disappointment; meet trouble or ruin; end badly; wreck; fail. * /Bill came …
Словарь английских идиом
COME TO GRIEF — v. phr. To have a bad accident or disappointment; meet trouble or ruin; end badly; wreck; fail. Bill came to …
American Idioms English vocabulary
COME TO GRIEF — попасть в беду; потерпеть неудачу Syn : come unstuck потерпеть неудачу, попасть в беду
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
COME TO GRIEF — попасть в беду; потерпеть неудачу
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
COME TO GRIEF — попасть в беду; потерпеть неудачу Syn:come unstuck
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
COME TO GRIEF — попасть в беду, доигрывать, потерпеть неудачу
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
COME TO GRIEF — попасть в беду, доигрывать, потерпеть неудачу
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
COME TO GRIEF — попасть в беду; потерпеть неудачу Syn: come unstuck
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
COME TO GRIEF — попасть в беду; потерпеть неудачу Syn: come unstuck
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
COME TO GRIEF — попасть в беду; потерпеть неудачу
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
COME TO GRIEF — попасть в беду; потерпеть неудачу
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
COME TO GRIEF — попасть в беду; потерпеть неудачу
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
COME TO GRIEF — попасть в беду; потерпеть неудачу Syn : come unstuck потерпеть неудачу, попасть в беду
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
COME
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GRIEF — I. ˈgrēf noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English gref, grefe, from Old French grief, gref, adjective, heavy, grave, difficult, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
GRIEF — — griefless , adj. — grieflessness , n. /greef/ , n. 1. keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GRIEF — noun Etymology: Middle English gref, from Anglo-French gref, grief injustice, calamity, from gref, adjective heavy, grievous, from Vulgar Latin * …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GRIEF — adj physical pain, or a cause of it; malady. 2. grief ·adj cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts …
Webster English vocab
COME — p.p. of come. 2. come ·noun coming. 3. come ·noun to approach or arrive, as if by a journey or …
Webster English vocab
GRIEF — [grief] n [ME gref, fr. MF, heavy, grave, fr. (assumed) VL grevis, alter. of L gravis] (15c) 1 obs: grievance …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
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Merriam-Webster English vocab
GRIEF — grief BrE AmE ɡriːf
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
GRIEF — / griːf; NAmE / noun 1. [ U , C ] grief (over / at sth) a feeling of great …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GRIEF — grief /ɡriːf/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: gref , from Latin gravis ; …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GRIEF — n. 1 deep or intense sorrow or mourning. 2 the cause of this. øcome to grief meet with disaster; fail. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
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Английский основной разговорный словарь
GRIEF — n. 1 deep or intense sorrow or mourning. 2 the cause of this. come to grief meet with disaster; fail. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GRIEF — n.1 deep or intense sorrow or mourning. 2 the cause of this. Phrases and idioms: come to grief meet with …
Oxford English vocab
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Oxford English vocab
GRIEF — ( griefs) 1. Grief is a feeling of extreme sadness. ...a huge outpouring of national grief for the victims of …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GRIEF — (~s) 1. Grief is a feeling of extreme sadness. ...a huge outpouring of national ~ for the victims of the …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
GRIEF — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES bring sb pleasure/joy/pain/grief etc ▪ The decision brought him great relief. crazed with grief/pain/fear etc …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GRIEF — [noun] - very great sadness, esp. at the death of someoneNewspapers should not intrude on people's private grief. [U]You mustn't …
Cambridge English vocab
GRIEF — Synonyms and related words : accident, ache, aching, aching heart, adversity, affliction, agony, agony of mind, anguish, apologies, attrition, ayenbite …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
GRIEF — See: COME TO GRIEF, GOOD GRIEF, GOOD NIGHT(2) or GOOD GRIEF.
Slang English vocab
COME — v. come from come in come by come by chance come down with come off come on come out come …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
GRIEF — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deep , great , inconsolable , intense , overwhelming , real ▪ personal , private ▪ I …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
GRIEF — n. 25B6; noun he was overcome with grief : SORROW, misery, sadness, anguish, pain, distress, heartache, heartbreak, agony, torment, affliction, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
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Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
GRIEF — n. 1 anguish, suffering, agony, misery, wretchedness, pain, hurt, sadness, sorrow, dejection, depression, despondency, melancholy, unhappiness, woe, torment, desolation, heartbreak, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
COME — v. 1 approach, advance, (draw) near, move, Archaic or literary draw nigh The car came towards us She has come …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
GRIEF — See: COME TO GRIEF, GOOD GRIEF, GOOD NIGHT(2) or GOOD GRIEF.
Словарь английских идиом
COME — See: CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST, CROSS A BRIDGE BEFORE ONE COMES TO IT, EASY COME - EASY GO, FIRST …
Словарь английских идиом
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Большой Англо-Русский словарь
GRIEF — сущ. горе, печаль; огорчение; беда, бедствие, несчастье (at, over) to express grief ≈ страдать to feel, suffer grief ≈ оплакивать, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
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Большой Англо-Русский словарь
GRIEF — grief.ogg gri:f n 1. горе; печаль great mortal grief - большое ужасное горе secret grief - тайная печаль plunged in …
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