meaning of fail
1. 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.
2. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
3. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
4. To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc. ; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
5. To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
6. 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.
7. To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
8. To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
9. To become unable to meet ones engagements; especially, to be unable to pay ones debts or discharge ones business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
10. To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
11. To miss of attaining; to lose.
12. Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
13. Death; decease.
14. get worse; "Her health is
">declining"
Related Words
fail | fail-safe | failance | failed | failing | faille | failure | failure-directed testing |
