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English
Verb
come to naught (third-person singular simple present comes to naught, present participle coming to naught, simple past came to naught, past participle come to naught)
- Alternative form of come to nought
1952 December, 'Icarus', “The Chingford Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 793:The powers for the original line from Chingford to High Beech having been abandoned with the rest of the Loughton Branch Junction-High Beech line in 1869, another attempt was made in 1882, to extend the line three miles into the heart of the Forest. […] Unfortunately, this scheme also came to naught.