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rater

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(Engels)

  1. (transitive) to miss (an event or a thing)
  2. (informal, transitive) to screw up; to mess up
  3. (intransitive) to fail to fire; to misfire
  4. (informal, intransitive) to fail

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Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ʁa.te/
Etimologie (Engels)

Emerged in the early 1700s, likely originally in reference to a firearm misfiring, from the expression (1651) prendre un rat (“to misfire”, literally “to get a rat”), from rat (“rat”). More at rat.

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