Definition of fail

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Fail (v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

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Defaulter :: Defaulter (n.) One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.
Vice :: Vice (n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance..
Defail :: Defail (v. t.) To cause to fail.
Defaulter :: Defaulter (n.) One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator..
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.
Nonconformity :: Nonconformity (n.) Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship..
Disappointment :: Disappointment (n.) The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration..
Nonobservance :: Nonobservance (n.) Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.
Wane :: Wane (n.) Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
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..
Flunk :: Flunk (v. t.) To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty..
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) 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..
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) Death; decease.
Failing :: Failing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fai.
Displease :: Displease (v. t.) To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
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..
Defect :: Defect (n.) Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment..
Fail :: Fail (v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.
Fault :: Fault (n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish..
Decay :: Decay (n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay..
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