The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word FAILED , but the solution may also be TANKED which is one of the most recent solution (2012 in LA Times).
Went belly up crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| FAILED | 40 % | 6 |
| ATEIT | 20 % | 5 |
| TANKED | 20 % | 6 |
| BOUGHTTHEFARM | 20 % | 13 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Went belly up
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- failed
- fail
- broke
- fold
- croak
- bankrupt
- increase
- bellying
- prone
- supine
- rose
- rise
Crossword Answer definitions
FAILED verb- To be unsuccessful.
- Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To neglect.
- Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
- To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- To miss attaining; to lose.
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
- To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
- To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
- To perish; to die; used of a person.
- To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
- 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.
- Unsuccessful
- Decayed; worn out.
- Bankrupt.
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 FAILED
- Struck out
- Went belly up
- Gave out
- Went out of business
- Came up short
- Didn't make it
- Needed to retake, maybe
- Didn't hit the books?
- Fell short
- Came a cropper
More clues leading to the result ATEIT
- Absorbed the cost
- Suffered defeat, slangily
- Took the bait?
- Took the loss, in slang
- Went belly-up
- Wiped out at the skate park
- Took the loss
- Failed spectacularly
- Took the loss, slangily
- Absorbed the cost, slangily
More clues leading to the result TANKED
- Prepared for a trip, with "up"
- ___ up (filled with petrol)
- Looped
- and General George Patton was ___
- Played very badly and lost
- Went down the tubes
- Failed in a big way
- Failed rapidly
- Failed suddenly, in slang
- Went belly up