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fail

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a business collapses/fails (= stops operating ) ▪ 35% of small businesses fail in the first year of operation. a company fails (= goes bankrupt ) ▪ His audio equipment company failed in the mid 1980s. a crop fails ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 (label en slang US) That is a failure. n. 1 (context uncountable English) (label en slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship. 2 (label en slang) A failure (gloss: condition of being unsuccessful) 3 (label en slang US) A failure (gloss: something ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fail \Fail\, v. t. To be wanting to; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert. There shall not fail thee a man on the throne. --1 Kings ii. 4. To miss of attaining; to lose. [R.] Though that seat of earthly bliss be failed. --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "failure, deficiency" (as in without fail ), from Old French faile "deficiency," from falir (see fail (v.)). The Anglo-French form of the verb, failer , also came to be used as a noun, hence failure .

Usage examples of fail.

Menstruation may fail to be established in consequence of organic defects, or from some abnormal condition of the blood and nervous system.

The complaint further alleged that the office of the Seminole County Supervisor of Elections failed to inform the Democratic Party of the actions of the Republican Party volunteers and to afford them the same opportunity to correct defective requests for absentee ballots from Democratic Party members.

If this fails, the finger is wiped off with a piece of cloth which has been saturated with alcohol, benzine or acetone, after which it may be inked and printed.

Leiter out by going to the Acme Baths to make the pay-off if Shy Smile failed to win the race.

In most cases, acquiescence need only be a last resort when attempts to stop the attack have failed.

If, after other strategies have failed, acquiescence is deemed to be the optimum response to protect life and reduce physical injury in a given situation, it is important that the victim be comfortable with such a choice and be aware that postassault guilt feelings will probably arise.

Congress should fail to act, and act adequately, I shall accept the responsibility, and I will act.

We failed to appreciate adequately what her presence among us meant and it is only now, when she has gone for ever, that we come to realize the irreparable character of our loss.

Terrible as were the losses of the Huguenots by fire and sword, considerable as were the defections from their ranks of those who found in the reformed Catholic church a spiritual refuge, still greater was the loss of the Protestant cause in failing to secure the adherence of such minds as Dolet and Rabelais, Ronsard and Montaigne, and of the thousands influenced by them.

The husband married again, and on his return to Massachusetts, his ex-wife petitioned the Massachusetts court to adjudge him in contempt for failing to make payments for her separate support under the earlier Massachusetts decree.

Constitution which precludes Congress from making criminal the violation of an administrative regulation, by one who has failed to avail himself of an adequate separate procedure for the adjudication of its validity, or which precludes the practice, in many ways desirable, of splitting the trial for violations of an administrative regulation by committing the determination of the issue of its validity to the agency which created it, and the issue of violation to a court which is given jurisdiction to punish violations.

Berry was aroused by an unusual prolonged wailing of the child, which showed that no one was comforting it, and failing to get any answer to her applications for admittance, she made bold to enter.

Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition, although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them.

Apparently handfuls of migrants from Eastern Polynesia failed to establish the tanging of adzes among the conservative Western Polynesians.

The journey took several minutes even at a sprint, through sunken tunnels and window-lined connecting bridges, up and down grilled ramps, through ponderous internal airlocks and sweltering aeroponics labs, taking this detour or that to avoid a blown bubble or failed airlock.