intransitive. To fare badly, come to grief, be unfortunate; (Shetland, of a boat) to founder. Now Scottish.

intransitive. To go astray (literal and figurative); to come to grief, go to ruin. Also transitive (in passive) in same sense.

intransitive. To fare ill; to come to grief; to be unfortunate or unsuccessful. Cf. misfare, v. 2.

intransitive. To be unsuccessful or unlucky.

intransitive. To come to harm, suffer misfortune, perish; (of a person) to meet with death; (of an inanimate object) to be lost or destroyed. Obsolete…

intransitive. To suffer harm or injury; to meet with misfortune; to come to grief. Obsolete.

Phrases. (colloquial or slang). †to catch copper: to suffer harm, ‘come to grief’. hot coppers: a mouth and throat parched through excessive…

to hold, keep aor one's seat: to remain seated, to keep from falling; also, to retain one's position as a Member of Parliament. Similarly, to lose…

intransitive. To suffer injury; = mischieve, v. 3. Obsolete.

to bu(r)st one's boiler (figurative), to come, or bring, to grief. U.S. colloquial.

to come to grief: to meet with disaster; (Sport) to have a fall; to fail, prove abortive; so to bring to grief. Chiefly colloquial; somewhat rare in…

A heavy fall, a cropper. to come (also go) a mucker: to suffer a serious fall; (figurative) to come to grief, to ruin oneself. Cf. to come a cropper…

A heavy fall; usually in to come (fall, get) a cropper: often figurative.

intransitive. To come to grief, to fail. Obsolete.

U.S., etc. U.S. slang. to goor be up the flume: to ‘come to grief’, ‘be done for’; to die.

to come undone: to come to grief.

to play smash: to come to grief; to wreak havoc with. dialect and U.S. colloquial.

colloquial. to come to a sticky end and variants: to die or come to grief in violent or exceptionally unpleasant circumstances.

to come unstuck, to come to grief.