nodding to its fall

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Roget 162: destroyed etc. v.; perishing etc. v.; trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall; in course of destruction etc. n.; extinct.    all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing.    destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating; incendiary, deletory^†; destroying etc. n.. suicidal; deadly etc. (killing) 361.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 665: in danger etc. n.; endangered etc. v.; fraught with danger; dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous^†; unsafe, unprotected etc. (safe, protect) etc. 664; insecure.    untrustworthy; built upon.   sand, on a sandy basis; wildcat.    defenseless, fenceless, guardless^†, harborless; unshielded; vulnerable, expugnable^†, exposed; open to etc. (liable) 177.    aux abois [Fr.], at bay; on the wrong side of the wall, on a lee shore, on the rocks.    at stake, in question; precarious, critical, ticklish; slippery, slippy; hanging by a thread etc. v.; with a halter round one's neck; between the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires; on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcano; in the lion's den, on slippery ground, under fire; not out of the wood.    unwarned, unadmonished, unadvised, unprepared etc. 674; off one's guard etc. (inexpectant) 508^†.    tottering; unstable, unsteady; shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown, ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged; helpless, guideless^†; in a bad way; reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity; trembling in the balance; nodding to its fall etc. (destruction) 162.    threatening etc. 909; ominous, illomened; alarming etc. (fear) 860; explosive.    adventurous etc. (rash) 863, (bold) 861.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 659: unimproved etc. (improve) etc. 658; deteriorated etc. v.; altered, altered for the worse; injured etc. v.; sprung; withering, spoiling etc. v.; on the wane, on the decline; tabid^†; degenerate; marescent^†; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect etc. 651; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weather-beaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky [U.S.].    decayed etc. v.; moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved etc. (vicious) 945; decrepid^†, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat [Fr.], out of action, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work etc. (useless) 645.    at a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs; undermined, deciduous; nodding to its fall etc. (destruction) 162; tottering etc. (dangerous) 665; past cure etc. (hopeless) 859; fatigued etc. 688; retrograde etc. (retrogressive) 283; deleterious etc. 649.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 306: descending etc. v.; descendent; decurrent^†, decursive^†; labent^†, deciduous; nodding to its fall.   

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