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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..

Muff :: Muff (v. t.) To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it..

Fail :: Fail (v. t.) To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.

Impenitence :: Impenitence (n.) The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart.

Disprovide :: Disprovide (v. t.) Not to provide; to fail to provide.

Nonexecution :: Nonexecution (n.) Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.

Stumbler :: Stumble (n.) A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.

Misregulate :: Misregulate (v. t.) To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.

Unless :: Unless (conj.) Upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not; supposing that not; if it be not; were it not that; except; as, we shall fail unless we are industrious..

Trip :: Trip (n.) A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.

Unfailable :: Unfailable (a.) Infallible.

Guaranty :: Guaranty (n.) In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t..

Shortcoming :: Shortcoming (n.) The failure of a crop, or the like..

Default :: Default (n.) Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom.

Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..

Cease :: Cease (v. i.) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.

Failure :: Failure (n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops..

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..

Flincher :: Flincher (n.) One who flinches or fails.

Shiftless :: Shiftless (a.) Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management..

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