rater
- (transitive) to miss (an event or a thing)
- (informal, transitive) to screw up; to mess up
- (intransitive) to fail to fire; to misfire
- (informal, intransitive) to fail
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʁa.te/
Etymology
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.
laisser échapper
manquer son coup
omettre de faire
verfehlen
missen
mancare
falhar
perder
kaçırmak
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