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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Frail :: Frail (superl) Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
Default :: Default (v. i.) To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.
Nonappearance :: Nonappearance (n.) Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear..
Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines..
Fizzle :: Fizzle (v. i.) To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty..
Revoke :: Revoke (v. i.) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege..
Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation..
Miscorrect :: Miscorrect (v. t.) To fail or err in attempting to correct.
Sorehead :: Sorehead (n.) One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like..
Miss :: Miss (v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
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..
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..
Innutrition :: Innutrition (n.) Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment.
Unknow :: Unknow (v. t.) To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of.
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
Missuccess :: Missuccess (n.) Failure.
Miss :: Miss (n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc..
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