Related Clues:

• Allow to deteriorate
• Take it on the chin
• Get blitzed
• Shake, as a tail?
• Place last, say
• Suffer defeat
• Almost win
• Get upset, in a way
• Get checkmated
• Be beaten
• Succeed on a diet
• Throw a walk-off homer, e.g.
• Forsake
• Get beaten
• Fail to keep up