Fail
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Fail
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1 v. i.
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.
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2 v. i.
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
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3 v. i.
To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
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4 v. i.
To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
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5 v. i.
To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
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6 v. i.
To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
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7 v. i.
To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
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8 v. i.
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
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9 v. i.
To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
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10 v. t.
To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
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11 v. t.
To miss of attaining; to lose.
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12 v. i.
Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
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13 v. i.
Death; decease.
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14 v. i.
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.
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15 v. i.
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
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16 v. i.
To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
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17 v. i.
To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
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18 v. i.
To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
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19 v. i.
To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
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20 v. i.
To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
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21 v. i.
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
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22 v. i.
To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
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23 v. t.
To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
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24 v. t.
To miss of attaining; to lose.
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25 v. i.
Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
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26 v. i.
Death; decease.