flambe
verb
1 flambe
Pour liquor over and ignite (a dish).
adjective
Roget 732:
unsuccessful,
successless†;
failing,
tripping
etc.
v.;
at fault;
unfortunate
etc.
735.
abortive,
addle,
stillborn;
fruitless,
bootless;
ineffectual,
ineffective,
inconsequential,
trifling,
nugatory;
inefficient
etc.
(impotent)
158;
insufficient
etc.
640;
unavailing
etc.
(useless)
645;
of no effect.
aground,
grounded,
swamped,
stranded,
cast away,
wrecked,
foundered,
capsized,
shipwrecked,
nonsuited†;
foiled;
defeated
etc.
731;
struck down,
borne down,
broken down;
downtrodden;
overborne,
overwhelmed;
all up with;
ploughed,
plowed,
plucked.
lost,
undone,
ruined,
broken;
bankrupt
etc.
(not paying)
808;
played out;
done up,
done for;
dead beat,
ruined root and branch,
flambe†,
knocked on the head;
destroyed
etc.
162.
frustrated,
crossed,
unhinged,
disconcerted dashed;
thrown off one's balance,
thrown on one's back,
thrown on one's beam ends†;
unhorsed,
in a sorry plight;
hard hit.
stultified,
befooled†,
dished,
hoist on one's own petard;
victimized,
sacrificed.
wide of the mark
etc.
(error)
495;
out of one's reckoning
etc.
(inexpectation)
508†;
left in the lurch;
thrown away
etc.
(wasted)
638;
unattained;
uncompleted
etc.
730.
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