complete failure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcompleteandfailure
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complete
adjective
uk/kəmˈpliːt/us/kəmˈpliːt/
very great or to the largest ...
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failure
noun
uk/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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(Definition ofcompleteandfailurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcomplete failure
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Thiscompletefailureof incorporation was taken to indicate cell death.
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The urban migration approach to solving rural poverty and resource degradation has been acompletefailure.
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Although in some cases strange interpretations can be obtained, usually there is nocompletefailure.
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It was acompletefailure.
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That was acompletefailure.
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Sometimes this results incompletefailureto perceive any sounds as being at the front (or rear).
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This late -owering was the main reason for thecompletefailureof the sorghum crop during the 1997 crop season.
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The result was anothercompletefailure.
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It was not, however, acompletefailure.
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This rebellion has been acompletefailure.
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It so, it is acompletefailure.
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It has been acompletefailure.
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That policy has been acompletefailure.
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That has been acompletefailure.
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This ended in utter andcompletefailure.
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That experiment was acompletefailure.
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Has it been acompletefailure?
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The second will be acompletefailure.
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The picketing provisions were acompletefailure.
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And the result wascompletefailure.
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The crop was acompletefailure.
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That of course proved acompletefailure.
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It was a total andcompletefailure.
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That attempt was acompletefailure.
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