intransitive verb. To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To be unsuccessful.

intransitive verb. To be unsuccessful in being acted upon.

intransitive verb. To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum.

intransitive verb. To prove insufficient in quantity or duration; give out.

intransitive verb. To decline, as in strength or effectiveness.

intransitive verb. To cease functioning properly.

intransitive verb. To give way or be made otherwise useless as a result of excessive strain.

intransitive verb. To become bankrupt or insolvent.

intransitive verb. To disappoint or prove undependable to.

intransitive verb. To abandon; forsake.

intransitive verb. To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example).

intransitive verb. To leave undone; neglect.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum in (a course, for example).

intransitive verb. To give such a grade of failure to (a student).

intransitive verb. To be detected by (a drug test) as having used a banned substance.

noun. A failing grade.

idiom. (without fail) With no chance of failure.

noun. A piece cut off from the rest of the sward; a turf; a sod.

noun. A woman's upper garment. Halliwell. See faille.

To be or become deficient or lacking, as something expected or desired; fall short, cease, disappear, or be wanting, either wholly or partially; be insufficient or absent: as, the stream fails in summer; our supplies failed.

To decline; sink; grow faint; become weaker.

To come short or be wanting in action, detail, or result; disappoint or prove lacking in what is attempted, expected, desired, or approved: often followed by an infinitive or by of or in: as, he failed to come; the experiment failed of success; he fails in duty; the portrait fails in expression.

To become unable to meet one's engagements, especially one's debts or business obligations; become insolvent or bankrupt.

=Syn, 1. To fall short, come short, give out.

To wane, fade, weaken.

To come to naught, prove abortive.

To break, suspend payment.

To be wanting to; disappoint; desert; leave in the lurch.

To omit; leave unbestowed or unperformed; neglect to keep or observe: as, to fail an appointment.

To come short of; miss; lack.

To deceive; delude; mislead.

noun. Lack; absence or cessation.

noun. Failure; deficiency: now only in the phrase without fail (which see, below).

noun. A failure, failing, or fault.

noun. Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.

noun. Death; decease.

intransitive verb. 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

intransitive verb. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.

intransitive verb. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

intransitive verb. To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.

intransitive verb. To perish; to die; -- used of a person.

intransitive verb. 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.

intransitive verb. To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.

intransitive verb. To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

intransitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.

transitive verb. To miss of attaining; to lose.

"'You can't fail,' she said, '_I won't let you fail_!'"

decline  feal  sicken  sink  without fail  

fail-safe  failure  

decline  disappoint  evaluate  judge  let down  

ballup  blow  bobble  bodge  bollix  

Bayle  Braille  Dail  Dale  Gael  

demand  do  failure  find  give  

abandon  abort  age  bankrupt  be a gas  

failed  failes  failing  fails