Word Finder - failed

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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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Unsuccessful

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Decayed; worn out.

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Bankrupt.

I failed you and Katie both.

Carmen was so tired that the icy wind failed to keep her awake.

I.ve failed miserably in my role as a foster mom, and he nearly died because of it.

Efforts to reach agreement failed.

She was the guiding spirit of the first Fronde, when she brought over Armand, Prince de Conti, her second brother, and her husband to the malcontents, but she failed to attract Conde himself, whose loyalty to the court overthrew the first Fronde.

Somehow it failed to interest me.

She whirled away and crossed to the Oracle's book, closing it after his failed attempt to see Rhyn's fate.

I failed you – again.

They have failed particularly when they have left the idea of " determination " unpurged of the suggestion of time succession.

Yet the alternative was that Darkyn probably killed Wynn tomorrow, when he failed.

The demons he sent to Death's underworld failed.

She.d tried opening a portal soon after Rhyn left to return to the Sanctuary but failed.

Kris watched him stalk away, unable to shake a sense of guilt.  If he'd gone after Kiki, he wouldn't have put his half-brother at even greater risk.  His judgment had failed him.

You failed to close it, and now there are two. We can't monitor the Others moving in and out of the mortal world.

He'd never been affectionate, but he had never failed to support her father when he needed his most trusted advisor.

His moves slowed, faltered, and failed.

If his plan failed, he'd send the remaining members of the army with the people north, until they met Dierdirien's armies.

After the third attempt failed, she decided to call from the store.

Nothing more was said about Justin, and Mr. O'Hara's silence was confirmation that he had tried and failed.

She was doing her damndest not to think about what happened if she failed.

An attempt late in 1519 to seize Ferrara failed, and the pope recognized the need of foreign aid.

You made a selfless choice, one I've failed to make more than once.  Besides, I ordered Katie killed.  I alone can make this right.

She failed her task and managed to piss off the new boss, all because she got nervous seeing a half-naked man.

What happened tomorrow, if she failed to do what Jonny wanted?

But analysis has failed to find such differences.

Not a soldier himself, he had to control and direct the movements of armies; can we be surprised if he failed, or if he was unable to keep control over the generals or to establish that military co-operation so essential to success?

During all the terrible winter which followed, his energy and spirit never failed him.

Its three main objects, the peace of Christendom, the crusade and the reform of the church, could be secured only by general agreement among the powers, and Leo or the council failed to secure such agreement.

He failed to recognize the pressing need of reform within the church and the tremendous dangers which threatened the papal monarchy; and he unpardonably neglected the spiritual needs of the time.

He also carried out many experiments in magneto-optics, and succeeded in showing, what Faraday had failed to detect, the rotation under the influence of magnetic force of the plane of polarization in certain gases and vapours.

Antony Legrand, from Douai, attempted to introduce it into Oxford, but failed.

Having failed to form a rival party against Sagasta, Martos subsided into political insignificance, despite his great talent as an orator and debater, and died in Madrid on the 16th of January 1893.

The Spartans failed to safeguard Heraclea against the Oetaeans and Thessalians, and for a short time were displaced by the Thebans (420).

He anticipated the ideals of Peter the Great, and only failed in realizing them because his material resources were inadequate.

They failed, however, in both attempts; and in the latter, owing to the darkness, and to the occurrence of a violent storm which suddenly swelled the torrents in the ravines, their force was thrown into inextricable confusion, and they were compelled to abandon their camp and make the best of their escape from the country.

As her health failed she hardly ever left the convent of the Carmelites in which she had been educated.

An attempt of the Spanish party to make Balthasar de Cisneros president of the junta failed, and the ex-viceroy retired to Montevideo.

Eberian influence in the south-west, Ligurian on the shores of the Mediterranean, Germanic immigrations from east of the Rhine and Scandinavian immigrations in the north-west have tended to produce ethnographical diversities which ease of intercommunication and other modern conditions have failed to obliterate.

This piece was favourably received, and an attempt to suppress it on religious grounds failed.

The plot failed owing to the late arrival of the Athenian force, when Nicodromus had already fled the island.

It is urged that the imperfect placenta of the bandicoots instead of being vestigial, may be an instance of parallelism, and that in marsupials generally the allantois failed to form a placental connexion.

The siege failed and the Assyrians retired.

Of the several attempts to cross Western Australia, even Major Warburton's expedition, the most successful, had failed in the important particular of determining the nature of the country through which it passed.

It was provided that a person was to be prohibited from landing in Australia who failed to write in any prescribed language fifty words dictated to him by the commonwealth officer supervising immigration.

The building societies and financial institutions in receipt of deposits, or so many of them as were on an unsound footing, failed at an early period of the depression, so also did the weaker banks.

Much capital was locked up in the failed banks, and was therefore not available for distribution amongst wageearners.

The bill, however, fell absolutely dead, not because it was not a good bill, but because the movement out of which it arose had not popular initiative, and therefore failed to reach the popular imagination.

Other consignments of intending settlers in " New Australia " followed; but though the settlement is still in existence it has completely failed to realize the impracticable ideals of its original members.

The act contained stringent provisions forbidding strikes; but in this respect it failed to effect its purpose, several strikes occurring in the years following its enactment, in which there were direct refusals to obey awards.

In Western Australia, too, the act failed to prevent strikes taking place.