Definition of fail

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Fail (v. i.) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.

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Inattention :: Inattention (n.) Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect..
Short :: Short (v. i.) To fail; to decrease.
Nonsuit :: Nonsuit (v. t.) To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up..
Mismanagement :: Mismanagement (n.) Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement..
Accurate :: Accurate (a.) In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc..
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.
Unintermission :: Unintermission (n.) Want or failure of intermission.
Nonlimitation :: Nonlimitation (n.) Want of limitation; failure to limit.
Miss :: Miss (v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said..
Repulse :: Repulse (n.) Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure.
Nonadmission :: Nonadmission (n.) Failure to be admitted.
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates..
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time..
Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
Fail :: Fail (v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.
Owing :: Owing (P. p. & a.) Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue, etc.; ascribable; -- with to; as, misfortunes are often owing to vices; his failure was owing to speculations..
Infallibly :: Infallibly (adv.) In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly.
Break :: Break (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty..
Shortcoming :: Shortcoming (n.) The failure of a crop, or the like..
Condition :: Condition (n.) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study..
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