See fall short on Wiktionary
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"text": "I did my best, but fell far short of the score cutoff."
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"ref": "1946 July and August, “The Royston Accident, G.N.R., July 3, 1866”, in Railway Magazine, page 216:",
"text": "Ample proof that the maintenance of locomotives and track in the mid-Victorian era sometimes fell far short of present-day standards is afforded by an accident which occurred on July 3, 1866, near Royston, on the Cambridge branch of the Great Northern Railway.",
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"ref": "2018 July 7, Phil McNulty, “Sweden 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport:",
"text": "They have fallen short on so many occasions that an England team who rises to the occasion are worthy of the highest praise.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 245c:",
"text": "But if being is not a whole through being affected by that affection, and there is such a thing as the whole itself, it follows that being falls short of itself.",
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"To be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient."
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"(idiomatic) To be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient."
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "tekortschieten"
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "être en deçà de"
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "ὑστερέω"
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "alatta marad (…az elvárásoknak)"
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "elégtelennek bizonyul"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "nem éri el"
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "nem felel meg"
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "hara"
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"roman": "kam âvardan",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "کم آوردن"
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "não ser suficiente"
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"roman": "bytʹ",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "быть недостаточным"
}
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "tekortschieten"
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "être en deçà de"
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"roman": "husteréō",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "ὑστερέω"
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "ἐλασσόομαι"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "elmarad (…az elvárásoktól)"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "alatta marad (…az elvárásoknak)"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "elégtelennek bizonyul"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "nem éri el"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "nem felel meg"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "dēsum"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "hara"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kam âvardan",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "کم آوردن"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "não ser suficiente"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bytʹ",
"sense": "to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient",
"word": "быть недостаточным"
}
],
"word": "fall short"
}
Download raw JSONL data for fall short meaning in All languages combined (5.1kB)
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