Fail ¹

Definition: 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.

Fail ²

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

Fail ³

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

Fail ⁴

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

Fail ⁵

Definition: To perish; to die; used of a person.

Fail ⁶

Definition: 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.

Fail ⁷

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

Fail ⁸

Definition: To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

Fail ⁹

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

Fail ¹⁰

Definition: To miss of attaining; to lose.

Fail ¹¹

Definition: Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.

Fail ¹²

Definition: Death; decease.

fail ¹³

Definition: get worse; "Her health is declining"

fail ¹⁴

Definition: stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

fail ¹⁵

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

fail ¹⁶

Definition: disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"

fail ¹⁷

Definition: 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"

fail ¹⁸

Definition: 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 ¹⁹

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

fail ²⁰

Definition: judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"

fail ²¹

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

fail ²²

Definition: fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"

fail ²³

Definition: be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"