Definition of fail

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Fail (v. i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.

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Cease :: Cease (v. i.) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
Failure :: Failure (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise..
Nondeposition :: Nondeposition (n.) A failure to deposit or throw down.
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc..
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..
Irrecognition :: Irrecognition (n.) A failure to recognize; absence of recognition.
Disserve :: Disserve (v. t.) To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.
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..
Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance..
Bezoar :: Bezoar (n.) A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea..
Nonappearance :: Nonappearance (n.) Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear..
Failure :: Failure (n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight..
Unsuccess :: Unsuccess (n.) Want of success; failure; misfortune.
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..
Wane :: Wane (n.) Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege..
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..
Foible :: Foible (n.) A moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.
Immortification :: Immortification (n.) Failure to mortify the passions.
Indefectible :: Indefectible (a.) Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay..
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