Definition of failure

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Failure (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business..

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Nonsuit :: Nonsuit (v. t.) To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up..
Indefectible :: Indefectible (a.) Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay..
Miscarriage :: Miscarriage (n.) Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.
Nonsuit :: Nonsuit (n.) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case..
Unintermission :: Unintermission (n.) Want or failure of intermission.
Caution :: Caution (n.) A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness..
Nonsubmission :: Nonsubmission (n.) Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.
Shortcoming :: Shortcoming (n.) The failure of a crop, or the like..
Failure :: Failure (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise..
Nonappointment :: Nonappointment (n.) Neglect of making appointment; failure to receive an appointment.
Flunk :: Flunk (n.) a total failure in a recitation.
Reentry :: Reentry (n.) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease..
Accretion :: Accretion (n.) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share..
Default :: Default (n.) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc..
Indigestion :: Indigestion (n.) Lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.
Nonsolution :: Nonsolution (n.) Failure of solution or explanation.
Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef..
Nonelection :: Nonelection (n.) Failure of election.
Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him..
Immortification :: Immortification (n.) Failure to mortify the passions.
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