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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..

Fail :: Fail (v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail..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

Infallible :: Infallible (a.) Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy..

Incognizant :: Incognizant (a.) Not cognizant; failing to apprehended or notice.

Unfailing :: Unfailing (a.) Not failing; not liable to fail; inexhaustible; certain; sure.

Stagger :: Stagger (n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.

Unerring :: Unerring (a.) Committing no mistake; incapable or error or failure certain; sure; unfailing; as, the unerring wisdom of God..

Failure :: Failure (n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight..

Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

Default :: Default (n.) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default..

Decay :: Decay (v. i.) To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay..

Rub :: Rub (n.) Imperfection; failing; fault.

Peter :: Peter (v. i.) To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out; as, that mine has petered out..

Innutrition :: Innutrition (n.) Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment.

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..

Unintermission :: Unintermission (n.) Want or failure of intermission.

Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation..

Forgetfulness :: Forgetfulness (n.) Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty..

Flinch :: Flinch (v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat..

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