Word Finder - fail

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Poor quality; substandard workmanship.

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The project was full of fail.

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A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)

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A failure (something incapable of success)

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A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).

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A failing grade in an academic examination.

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To be unsuccessful.

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Throughout my life, I have always failed.

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Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

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The truck failed to start.

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To neglect.

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The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.

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Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.

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After running five minutes, the engine failed.

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

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To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.

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I failed English last year.

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To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.

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The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.

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To miss attaining; to lose.

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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.

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The crops failed last year.

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

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

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To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.

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A sick man fails.

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To perish; to die; used of a person.

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To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

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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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That is a failure.

I won't fail again, Dusty, I promise.

You didn't fail me.

Now we are certainly on the fuzzy edges, a place where words, often fuzzy in their meanings, begin to fail us.

With any luck, his Watcher wouldn't fail him.

You could've waited a day for him to fail then cured Selyn.

Isn't that where angels who fail go?

It seems very strange to me that there should be this difference of opinion; I cannot understand how any one interested in our education can fail to appreciate the satisfaction we feel in being able to express our thoughts in living words.

Whether or not further study of the scripts of these writers confirms this hypothesis, it cannot fail to throw light on the nature of the intelligence involved.

If they fail, I will hear before morning.

While, under the control of Europeans, the Tongans have shown some aptitude for administration, they fail when left to themselves.

The only hope of the Jews lay in the clemency of their victorious suzerain, and it did not fail them.

In English practice the leader is entitled to a second throw if he fail to roll a On Scottish greens the game of points is frequently played, but it is rarely seen on English greens.

He enlarges, as it was his business to do, on the tranquillity and prosperity of the empire in that period, but he does not fail to place his finger on the want of political liberty as a fatal defect.

All might yet have gone well if Turgot could have retained the confidence of the king, but the king could not fail to see that Turgot had not the support of the other ministers.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

I shall be so disappointed if my little plans fail, because I have wanted for a long time to do something for the poor little ones who are waiting to enter the kindergarten.

You didn't fail me, Alex.

But, coming in by a title which professed to be founded on English law, establishing his followers by grants which professed no less to be founded on English law, he planted a dynasty, and established a dominant order, which could not fail to become English.

What you fail to realize is that --whatever I am --I draw good and evil to me.

Nevertheless, there is a charm of originality about his earlier logical work which no competent reader can fail to appreciate.

The pulse and respiration steadily fail, death occurring from asphyxia.

Properly applied, the principle could not fail; but, as may readily be proved in the case of sonorous waves, it is not in strictness sufficient to assume the expression for FIG.

Their physiological activities gradually fail owing to the constructive processes having become so exhausted from long use that the destructive ones are able to overtake them.

First of all she could not fail to remark the increasing discontent withaher arbitrary and wasteful ways.

If we fail to add it, we destroy the applicability.

Allie's parents would rather her show integrity and fail a test than cheat and do well.

It is impossible to make any general law which will work with every particular act and not fail in some circumstances.

For working long submarine cables the apparatus ordinarily employed on land lines cannot be used, as the retarding effect of the electrostatic capacity of the cable is so marked that signals fail to be recorded except at a very slow speed of working.

C. Geographical Distribution The study of the extinct organisms of any country leads to a proper appreciation of its existing flora and fauna; while, on the other hand, a due consideration of the plants and animals which may predominate within its bounds cannot fail to throw more or less light on the changes it has in the course of ages undergone.

The grandeur and antiquity of the empire and the vicissitudes through which it passed, their long series of wars and the magnificent monuments erected by their ancient sovereigns, could not fail to leave numerous traces in the memory of so imaginative a people as the Persians.

The influence of the monsoon is greatly moderated before it reaches this region, and the rains sometimes fail altogether.

The rains are neither regular nor certain, however, and sometimes fail for a succession of years, causing destructive seccas (droughts).

Though the individual might perish amid the disorders of this world, he would not fail, apocalyptic taught, to attain through resurrection the recompense that was his due in the Messianic kingdom or in heaven itself.

Allowing for those which fail to germinate (perhaps 25%), loss in transplanting, weak and backward plants, &c., one ounce of seed should yield about 40,000 plants.

The Comtist maintains that even if these five volumes together fail in laying down correctly and finally the lines of the new science, still they are the first solution of a great problem hitherto unattempted.

With the exception of the dog-days and the dead of winter, there is no season when flowers cease to be an object of attention to the Japanese, nor does any class fail to participate in the sentiment.

The fervour of the followers, of Chu-Hi (the orthodox school) could not fail to provoke opposition.

It might be supposed that all possible methods had now been considered, and that a combination of the three methods which have established their validity in relation to the interpretation of the Apocalypse would be adequate to the solution of all the problems of the book, but this is not so; for even when each in turn has vindicated the provinces in the book that rightly belong to it, and brought intelligibility into these areas, there still remain outlying regions which they fail to illumine.

The analyses of modern chemists have now revealed the existence of 32 out of the 80 known elements as existing dissolved in sea-water, and it is scarcely too much to say that the remaining elements also exist in minute traces which the available methods of analysis as yet fail to disclose.

In 1880 his eyesight began to fail, and shortly afterwards he was attacked with paralysis.

About 1689 his health, never very strong, began to fail seriously and he gradually withdrew from his public engagements, ceasing his communications to the Royal Society, and advertising his desire to be excused from receiving guests, "unless upon occasions very extraordinary," on Tuesday and Friday forenoon, and Wednesday and Saturday afternoon.

But the reason why the vast majority of them fail is that the vast majority of them should never have been made at all.

Again, the voter, especially the ignorant one, refrains from scratching his ticket, lest in some way he should fail to comply with the technicalities of the law and his vote be lost.

Cyprus possessed resources of timber and copper which could not fail to tempt the keen-eyed traders across the water, who made Citium (from Kittim, the name of the original non-Semitic inhabitants) their chief settlement, and thence established themselves in Idalium, Tamassus, Lapethus, Larnaka, Qarth-l.iadasht (Karti-hadasti) and other towns.

One cannot fail to be struck with the Ciceronian cadence that guides the movement even of his Italian writings.

And he found that all albinoes do not fail to clot when intravascularly injected with nucleoproteids.

If they fail, then (2) some other relative of the deceased in the same subdistrict (registrar's) as the deceased.

If all the above fail, (4) some inmate of the house, or the person causing the body of the deceased to be buried.

Wimshurst constructed numerous very powerful machines of this type, some of them with "multiple plates, which operate i - almost any climate, and rarely fail to charge themselves and deliver a torrent of sparks between the disf El charge balls whenever the winch is turned.

Tombs of saints abound, one or more being found in every town and village; and no traveller up the Nile can fail to remark how every prominent hill has the sepulchre of its patron saint.