fail

Definitions of fail in various dictionaries:

verb - fail to do something

verb - be unsuccessful

verb - disappoint, prove undependable to

verb - stop operating or functioning

verb - be unable

verb - judge unacceptable

verb - fail to get a passing grade

verb - fall short in what is expected

verb - become bankrupt or insolvent

verb - prove insufficient

verb - get worse

To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately.

To be unsuccessful: a valiant attempt that failed.

To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum.

To prove insufficient in quantity or duration; give out: The water supply failed during the drought.

To fall short, as in what is expected of one: failed in her obligations to the family.

To decline, as in strength or effectiveness: The patient’s heart failed.

To cease functioning properly: The engine failed.

To become bankrupt or insolvent: Our family business failed in 1929.

To disappoint or prove undependable to: Our sentries failed us.

To abandon; forsake: His strength failed him.

To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example): “We must... hold... those horrors up to the light of justice.

To leave (something) undone; neglect: failed to wash the dishes.

To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum in (a course, for example): failed algebra twice.

To give such a grade of failure to (a student): failed me in algebra.

Failure to deliver securities to a purchaser within a specified time.

Failure to receive the proceeds of a transaction, as in the sale of stock or securities, by a specified date.

verb - to be unsuccessful in an attempt

FAIL - Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ran...