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Antonyms for de faulting
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : dih-fawlt |
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈfɔlt |
- accept
- accomplish
- accumulate
- achieve
- acknowledge
- admit
- agree
- allow
- approve
- bear
- begin
- capture
- collect
- commence
- complete
- confront
- consent
- continue
- create
- deliver
- do
- earn
- emphasize
- enforce
- face
- fight
- fill
- finish
- gain
- gather
- give
- go along
- grant
- hoard
- hold
- hold on to
- in the black
- keep
- maintain
- meet
- merit
- obtain
- pay
- procure
- prosper
- reach
- refuse
- retain
- sanction
- save
- start
- starve
- succeed
- take
- welcome
- win
Definition of de faulting
Origin :- early 13c., "offense, crime, sin," later (late 13c.) "failure, failure to act," from Old French defaute (12c.) "fault, defect, failure, culpability, lack, privation," from Vulgar Latin *defallita "a deficiency or failure," past participle of *defallere, from Latin de- "away" (see de-) + fallere "to deceive, to cheat; to put wrong, to lead astray, cause to be mistaken; to escape notice of, be concealed from" (see fail (v.)). The financial sense is first recorded 1858; the computing sense is from 1966.
- As in in the red : adj operating at a loss
- As in lose : verb be deprived of; mislay
- As in renege : verb go back on one's word
- As in repudiate : verb reject; turn one's back on
- As in default : verb dodge payment
- As in fail : verb lose money
- As in go under : verb fail, submerge
Synonyms for de faulting
- abandon
- abjure
- apostatize
- at a loss
- banish
- bankrupt
- be against
- be careless
- be cleaned out
- be impoverished
- be in arrears
- be reduced
- be ruined
- be taken to the cleaners
- become insolvent
- become poorer
- behindhand
- bereave
- bilk
- break
- break one's promise
- break with
- capitulate
- cast
- cast off
- close
- close down
- close one's doors
- consume
- cop out
- crash
- cut off
- decline
- defalcate
- default
- defaulting
- defect
- defraud
- delinquent
- demur
- deny
- deplete
- desert
- die
- disacknowledge
- disapprove
- disavow
- discard
- disclaim
- dishonor
- disinherit
- dismiss
- disown
- displace
- dispossess
- dissipate
- divest
- drain
- drop
- drop a bundle
- drown
- dump
- end
- evade
- exhaust
- expend
- fail
- fail to keep
- fall
- fall short
- finish
- flush
- fly in the face of
- fold
- forfeit
- forget
- forsake
- founder
- give up
- go bankrupt
- go belly up
- go broke
- go bust
- go down
- go into Chapter 11
- go out of business
- go to the wall
- go under
- go up
- in arrears
- in debt
- in dire straits
- in the hock
- in the hole
- insolvent
- lavish
- leave town
- lose big
- lose one's shirt
- losing money
- meet under arch
- misplace
- miss
- misspend
- neglect
- nix
- nonpaying
- oust
- overdraw
- pass up
- put on the cuff
- rat
- recant
- refuse
- relinquish
- renounce
- repeal
- reprobate
- repudiate
- rescind
- retract
- reverse
- revoke
- rob
- run out on
- sacrifice
- see in the alley
- shirk
- sink
- skate
- skip
- skip out on
- spurn
- squander
- stiff
- submerse
- submit
- succumb
- suffer
- suffer loss
- suffocate
- surrender
- swindle
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- terminate
- to the bad
- turn
- turn down
- unprofitably
- use up
- wash one's hands of
- waste
- weasel out
- welch
- welsh
- yield
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