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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Noun: failure; nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; dead failure, successlessness; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen; labor in vain; (inutility); no go; inefficacy; inefficaciousness; Adjective: vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive efforts; flash in the pan, "lame and impotent conclusion"; frustration; slip 'twixt cup and lip; (disappointment). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ABORTIVE ATTEMPT |
| Specialty definitions using "ABORTIVE ATTEMPT": Kvikkalkul. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Line engraving, after a photograph by Alexander Gardner of Washington, D.C., published in "Harper's Weekly", 21 January 1865. It depicts RAdm. Porter on the deck of his flagship, USS Malvern. It is accompanied by an article presenting an account of the abortive attempt to capture Fort Fisher, North Carolina, on 24-25 December 1864. This print is based on Photo # NH 91416, with the addition of several officers standing nearby. Credit: NAVY. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Azerbaijan | At the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, an independent republic was proclaimed in 1918 following an abortive attempt to establish a Transcaucasian Republic with Armenia and Georgia. (references) |
Maldives | Although governed as an independent Islamic sultanate for most of its history from 1153 to 1968, Maldives was a British protectorate from 1887 until July 25, 1965. In 1953, there was a brief, abortive attempt at a republican form of government, after which the sultanate was reimposed. (references) | |
Political Economy | Maldives | In 1953, there was a brief, abortive attempt at a republican form of government, after which the sultanate was reimposed. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "ABORTIVE ATTEMPT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Indonesian | kegagalan (bust, failure). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | abortiveay attemptay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-i-m-o-p-r-t-t-t-t-v" | |
-5 letters: remotivate. | |
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