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naught
noun
Complete failure
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nɔːt
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noun
Complete failure
“All my efforts led to naught”
noun
A quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
“It looked like nothing I had ever seen before”
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All my efforts led to naught
It looked like nothing I had ever seen before
Reduced to nil all the work we had done
We racked up a pathetic goose egg
It was all for naught
I didn't hear zilch about it
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