Word Finder - failing

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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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Weakness; defect

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His worst failing is his temper.

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If the preferred or prior option is not possible

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A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement.

I'm failing every one of them.

But Henry's health was failing steadily.

Tender, compassionate, weak, like a human, and failing miserably to take my place.

Under the circumstances, the late hour, the failing light and the lack of information as to events on the left wing, immediate pursuit was out of the question.

Must be some emotional failing.

Other accounts say that he starved himself to death on failing to induce Antigonus to free his native city.

An important part of the dragoman's duties is to attend during any legal proceedings to which a subject of his nationality is a party, as failing his attendance and his concurrence in the judgment delivered such proceedings are null and void.

Failing to appreciate this fully, Wellington omitted to order an immediate concentration on his inner (left) flank as Blucher had done, and the danger of Blucher's position was thus enormously increased.

It was not until the light was failing that Napoleon reached the heights of Rossomme opposite to Wellington's position and, by a masterly reconnaissance in force, compelled the duke to disclose the presence of practically the whole Anglo-Dutch army.

Against the squares the horsemen were powerless, and failing to break a single square, they were finally swept off the plateau by fresh allied horsemen.

After failing in 1883, they obtained parliamentary powers for this purpose in 1884, and the first sod of the new dock at Barry was cut in November of that year.

Herzl's health had been failing and he did not long survive the initiation of the somewhat embittered "territorial" controversy.

In 1147 he made a formal claim on this duchy, and in 1151 sought to take possession, but failing to obtain the aid of his uncle Welf, did not effect his purpose.

Failing to find clerical duties at that time (the period of the Terror), he entered civil life, and served in various capacities, until on the appointment of Napoleon Bonaparte to the command of the French "Army of Italy" he became a commissary attached to that army.

Such an act she must regard as failing in sincerity to the crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that minister.

But his health was failing and he withdrew from politics, spending his last years as a benevolent and autocratic country magnate.

In the second place, the power of non-sexual reproduction by budding is practically of universal occurrence among the Hydrozoa, and by the buds failing to separate from the parent stock, colonies are produced, more or less complicated in structure and often of great size.

Failing to receive aid from Pozzo di Borgo, his mother's uncle, Louis Blanc studied law in Paris, living in poverty, and became a contributor to various journals.

Failing to find employment in the established church, he joined the Methodists in 1784.

His patron, Lord Oxford, disowned him, and the poet, whose health was failing, retired to Bath.

The Toth earl's Autobiography of a Seaman (2 vols., 1860-1861), the main source for his Life (1869, by his son and heir), is written with spirit, but it was composed at the end of his career when his memory was failing, and was chiefly executed by others.

From 1785 to 1787 he was governor of Massachusetts, suppressing with much vigour Shays' Rebellion, and failing to be re-elected largely because it was believed that he would punish the insurrectionists with more severity than would his competitor, John Hancock.

Caesar was soon joined by two legions from Gaul and marched rapidly down the Adriatic coast, overtaking Pompey at Brundisium (Brindisi), but failing to prevent him from embarking with his troops for the East, where the prestige of his name was greatest.

Failing, as stated, to achieve any advantage in the north in 1779, Sir Henry Clinton, under instructions from government, himself headed a combined military and naval expedition southward.

Here he continued his activity until he was obliged to retire in 1861, owing to failing health.

There may be a difficulty in fixing responsibility upon any person, or small group of persons; because cases may arise in which the executive, being unable to act without the concurrence of the legislature, can hardly be blamed for failing to act, while yet it is unable to relieve itself by resigning; while on.

There is, however, one class of cases in which no conclusion may be drawn, documental and intrinsic probability both failing us.

Since 1874 the Democratic party has had constant control of the state administration, the Republicans failing to make nominations for office in 1878 and 1880 and endorsing the ticket ' The enrolment was 104,518 blacks and 61,295 whites.

But he refused to advance farther and to put himself resolutely at the head of his party, although warmly acclaimed by it, and courage failing him, he returned to England, settling first in London, then in Holyrood Palace at Edinburgh and afterwards at Hartwell.

But these measures failing, he proposed to the king the suppression of internal customs, duties and the taxation of the property of nobles and clergy.

John still lived there with his mother, aged 83, infirm, and failing in sight, to whom came as a companion their cousin, Joanna Ruskin Agnew, afterwards Mrs Arthur Severn.

After an education at St Andrews, and acting as tutor to the children of Lord Darcy, the English warden of the North, he became a Dominican, but was soon in trouble as a heretic. In 1536 he made his way to England, but failing to obtain the preferment he desired at Cambridge, he went on to Italy, where the influence of Cardinal Pole, who was himself accused of heresy, secured him the post of master of the novices in the Dominican convent at Bologna.

And, as he saw that the marriage with Anne Boleyn was determined upon, he petitioned the king to be allowed to resign the Great Seal, alleging failing health.

There were no children by the marriage, his own health was failing, and the remainder of his life appears to have been clouded by solitude and dejection.

Failing in his attempt to maintain the religious character of the crusade, he wished to prevent it from ending secularly in its extreme consequence and logical outcome.

When at length he found his memory failing and his mental powers declining, he gave up, without ostentation or complaint, whatever parts of his work he could no longer carry on according to his own standard of efficiency.

They even founded a mission in Lhasa, which, after failing at first, was more firmly established in 1715 and lasted till 1733.

His first plan was a combination against her of Saxony, Denmark and Brandenburg; but, Brandenburg failing him, he was obliged very unwillingly to admit Russia into the partnership. The tsar was to be content with Ingria and Esthonia, while Augustus was to take Livonia, nominally as a fief of Poland, but really as an hereditary possession of the Saxon house.

He was assisted by his father-in-law, to whose court he had repaired; but, failing to shake the old king's power either in Normandy or England, made peace in 1174.

In 1257 Adam's health was failing, and he appears to have died in the following year.

When lime is used as a matrix, certain natural earths such as pozzuolana or trass, or, failing these, powdered bricks or tiles, may be used instead of sand with great advantage.

Failing the certificate, the clergyman cannot refuse to bury, but he must forthwith give notice in writing to the registrar.

Failing to obtain currency for his radical'propaganda, he retired to his native province, and there established a school (the Risshi-sha) for teaching the principles of government by the people, thus earning for himself the epithet of "the Rousseau of Japan."

Both the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Church Missionary Society were at that time suffering from a general coldness which, in the case of the latter society, had led in that very year to the committee reporting " a failing treasury and a scanty supply of men."

Failing to do this will result in a shoddy and unprofessional looking job.

Electrical upgrades may require a permit, and failing to get one could create problems when you go to sell your home.

Unsurprisingly, he'd lost his job earlier in the year for failing to show up for work.

The game isn't all shoot 'em up belligerence, but when you run out of missions to further the story or get tired of failing miserably at one mission for three hours, there's plenty of belligerence to go around.

It is great when you first start a quest, but if you keep failing, it can get a little tiring.

She asks her co-worker to show them where it's failing and he waves his hand over the whole map.