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Gets The Booby Prize Crossword Clue

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verb

• fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense

• fail to win

• suffer the loss of a person through death or removal

• miss from one's possessions; lose sight of

• allow to go out of sight or mind

• fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit

• fail to get or obtain

• fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

• withdraw, as from reality

• be set at a disadvantage

33%5 Deserving the booby prize
adjective

• (superlative of `bad') most wanting in quality or value or condition

noun

• the least favorable outcome

• the greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable

• the weakest effort or poorest achievement one is capable of

adverb

• to the highest degree of inferiority or badness

verb

• defeat thoroughly

33%4 Taking the booby prize
adjective

• coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining

noun

• the temporal end; the concluding time

• the last or lowest in an ordering or series

• a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do

• the time at which life ends; continuing until dead

• a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds

• a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels

• the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence

• holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes

adverb

• most recently

• the item at the end

adjective satellite

• immediately past

• occurring at or forming an end or termination

• most unlikely or unsuitable

• occurring at the time of death

• conclusive in a process or progression

• highest in extent or degree

• not to be altered or undone

• lowest in rank or importance

verb

• persist for a specified period of time

• continue to live and avoid dying

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