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fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"

prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"

get worse; "Her health is declining"

become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"

judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"

be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"

fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"

fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"

prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"

get worse; "Her health is declining"

become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"

judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"

be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"

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.

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

To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

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

To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

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.

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

To miss of attaining; to lose.

Death; decease.

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

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

Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; - mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.

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.

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

To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

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

To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

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.

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

To miss of attaining; to lose.

Death; decease.

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

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

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

To fall short; be deficient; waste away; decline; turn out badly; become bankrupt.

To be wanting, or insufficient for; forsake.

Failure; omission.

To fall short or be wanting; to fall away; to decay; to die; to miss; to be disappointed or baffied; to be unable to pay one's debts.

To be wanting to; disappoint.

To fall short; give out; not succeed; decay; become insolvent.

To be wanting to; disappoint.

Omission; failure.

To desert; to disappoint; to cease or neglect to afford aid, supply, or strength; to be wanting to; not to perform.

To become deficient; to cease to be abundant; to be wanting in; to decay; to sink; to become weaker; to be entirely wanting; to cease; to perish; to die; not to produce the effect; to miscarry; to be neglectful; to become insolvent or bankrupt.

To neglect to aid or supply; to disappoint; to fall short; to become deficient; to decay or decline; to be entirely wanting; to become weaker; to become bankrupt.

Omission; non-performance.

n. Failure; deficiency; lack; want.

To be deficient, to cease from former plenty, to fall short; to be extinct, to cease to be produced; to perish, to be soft; to decay, to decline, to languish; to miss, not to produce its effect; to miss, not to succeed in a design; to be deficient in duty.

To desert, not to continue to assist or supply; not to assist, to neglect, to omit to help; to omit, not to perform; to be wanting to.

Miscarriage; omission; deficience, want.