Answer to "Bite the dust" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word FAIL , but the solution may also be PERISH which is one of the most recent solution (2010 in CrossSynergy).

Bite the dust crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
FAIL	33 %	4
PERISH	33 %	6
DIE	33 %	3

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Bite the dust

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• lick the dust
• bite the biscuit
• bite it
• bite the big one
• kiss the dust
• kick the bucket
• eat someone's dust
• dust
• snuff it
• draw one's last breath
• cash in one's chips
• eat it

Crossword Answer definitions

FAIL noun

1. Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
2. A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)
3. A failure (something incapable of success)
4. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
5. A failing grade in an academic examination.

FAIL verb

1. To be unsuccessful.
2. Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
3. To neglect.
4. Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
5. To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
6. To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
7. To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
8. To miss attaining; to lose.
9. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
10. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
11. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
12. To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
13. To perish; to die; used of a person.
14. To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
15. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.

FAIL adjective

1. That is a failure.

FAIL noun

1. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result FAIL

• Go down the tubes
• Go pfft!
• Opposite of ace
• Go downhill
• Flunk
• Go belly-up
• Epic ___
• Go pfft big time
• Fall short
• Disappoint

More clues leading to the result PERISH

• Meet one's demise
• "Publish or ___"
• "___ the thought!"
• Alternative to publish
• Be totally destroyed
• Suffer ruin
• Bite the dust
• Cease to be
• ____ the thought!
• "... shall not ___ from ...": Lincoln

More clues leading to the result DIE

• Gambling cube
• Tool and ____ set
• Trivial Pursuit need
• __-hard
• "The ___ is cast." (Caesar)
• Conk out
• It's one you roll
• Cube with dots?
• Gaming cube
• Monopoly cube