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Definition of Fail
Pronunciation: fāl | v. i. | 1. | 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. | | 2. | To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; - used with of. | | 3. | To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink. | | 4. | To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails. | | 5. | To perish; to die; - used of a person. | | 6. | 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. | | 7. | To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated. | | 8. | To err in judgment; to be mistaken. | | 9. | 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; as, many credit unions failed in the late 1980's. | | v. t. | 1. | To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert. | | 2. | To miss of attaining; to lose. | | n. | 1. | Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; - mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail. | | 2. | Death; decease. |
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