All miss the boat synonyms

verb miss the boat

• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
• break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
• misread — Read (a piece of text) wrongly.
• misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
• miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
• overlook — to fail to notice, perceive, or consider: to overlook a misspelled word.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• misjudge — Form a wrong opinion or conclusion about.
• underestimate — to estimate at too low a value, rate, or the like.
• misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
• overestimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
• founder — a person who founds or casts metal, glass, etc.
• flounder — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
• flop — to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down): The puppy flopped down on the couch.
• blunder — A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
• fold — to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
• abort — If an unborn baby is aborted, the pregnancy is ended deliberately and the baby is not born alive.
• fizzle — to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly.
• slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
• miscarry — to have a miscarriage of a fetus.
• miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
• backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
• deteriorate — If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
• goof — to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
• miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
• botch — If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
• addle — If something addles someone's mind or brain, they become confused and unable to think properly.
• lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
• omit — to leave out; fail to include or mention: to omit a name from a list.
• misconceive — Fail to understand correctly.
• confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
• snarl — to become tangled; get into a tangle.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• jumble — to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order: You've jumbled up all the cards.
• tangle — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
• bungle — If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy.
• misapprehend — to misunderstand.
• misfire — (of a rifle or gun or of a bullet or shell) to fail to fire or explode.
• go down — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• come to nothing — plan, idea: fail
• fall flat — horizontally level: a flat roof.
• fall through — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
• go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way
• go downhill — travel down a slope
• go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
• go wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
• hit bottom — the lowest or deepest part of anything, as distinguished from the top: the bottom of a hill; the bottom of a page. Synonyms: base, foot, pedestal.
• hit the skids — get into difficulties