échouer

Definition: to fail; to end up

J'ai échoué à l'examen - I failed the test

Il faut faire échouer ce projet - We have to make this project fail

Il a échoué dans le Maine - He ended up in Maine

Related: un échec - failure, defeat, setback, breakdown

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