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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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..
Perennial :: Perennial (a.) Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.
Unintermission :: Unintermission (n.) Want or failure of intermission.
Want :: Want (v. i.) To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four..
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time..
Missuccess :: Missuccess (n.) Failure.
Impenitence :: Impenitence (n.) The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart.
Nonalienation :: Nonalienation (n.) Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated..
Lose :: Lose (v. t.) To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said..
Shadrach :: Shadrach (n.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.).
Misregulate :: Misregulate (v. t.) To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.
Discompliance :: Discompliance (n.) Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance.
Nonsolution :: Nonsolution (n.) Failure of solution or explanation.
Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him..
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) 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..
Disprovide :: Disprovide (v. t.) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
Default :: Default (v. t.) To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend..
Defaulter :: Defaulter (n.) One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.
Denutrition :: Denutrition (n.) The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.
Nonpayment :: Nonpayment (n.) Neglect or failure to pay.
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