Definition of fail

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Fail (v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail..

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Foil :: Foil (n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
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..
Miscarriageable :: Miscarriageable (a.) Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail.
Infallible :: Infallible (a.) Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy..
Nonalienation :: Nonalienation (n.) Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated..
Wantrust :: Wantrust (n.) Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust.
Miss :: Miss (v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said..
Missuccess :: Missuccess (n.) Failure.
Defailance :: Defailance (n.) Failure; miscarriage.
Wane :: Wane (n.) Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
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..
Nondelivery :: Nondelivery (n.) A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.
Disagree :: Disagree (v. i.) To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.
Indefectible :: Indefectible (a.) Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay..
Stumbler :: Stumble (n.) A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
Nonexportation :: Nonexportation (n.) A failure of exportation; a not exporting of commodities.
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..
Nonelection :: Nonelection (n.) Failure of election.
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation..
Innutrition :: Innutrition (n.) Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment.
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