Word.ws English Dictionary

falls at the final hurdle

falls at the final hurdle is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fall at the final hurdle.

Meaning of fall at the final hurdle

Verb

fall at the final hurdle (third-person singular simple present falls at the final hurdle, present participle falling at the final hurdle, simple past fell at the final hurdle, past participle fallen at the final hurdle)

  1. Synonym of fall at the last hurdle.
    • On the other hand, Crossrail fell at its final hurdle, admitting just months before its planned December 2018 opening that it was nowhere near ready.2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Ten Eventful Years and Plenty of Talking Points”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54

Questions about falls at the final hurdle

What is falls at the final hurdle the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Falls at the final hurdle is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fall at the final hurdle.

Words near falls at the final hurdle in the dictionary

  1. falls among
  2. falls apart
  3. falls around
  4. falls asleep
  5. falls asleep in the Lord
  6. falls at the final hurdle
  7. falls at the last hurdle
  8. falls away
  9. falls back
  10. falls back into
  11. falls back on

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: falls at the final hurdle (page history and authors); fall at the final hurdle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “falls at the final hurdle.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/falls_at_the_final_hurdle. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.