bring to naught
• ruin or foil.
Similar:
ruin,
wreck,
destroy,
devastate,
wreak havoc on,
reduce to nothing,
blight,
smash,
shatter,
dash,
torpedo,
scotch,
make a mess of,
mess up,
sabotage,
poison,
cancel out,
neutralize,
negate,
render ineffective,
make of no use or value,
louse up,
screw up,
foul up,
put the kibosh on,
banjax,
do for,
blow a hole in,
nix,
queer,
scupper,
cock up,
dish,
muller,
euchre,
cruel,
fuck up,
come to naught
• be ruined or foiled.
• "his hopes of becoming commissioner have come to naught"
Similar:
fail,
founder,
be unsuccessful,
not succeed,
lack success,
fall through,
fall flat,
break down,
abort,
miscarry,
be defeated,
suffer defeat,
be in vain,
be frustrated,
collapse,
misfire,
backfire,
not come up to scratch,
meet with disaster,
come to grief,
come to nothing,
miss the mark,
run aground,
go wrong,
go awry,
go astray,
flop,
fizzle out,
come a cropper,
bite the dust,
blow up in someone's face,
go down like a lead balloon,
