Definition of fail

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Fail (v. i.) To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails..

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Quail :: Quail (v. t.) To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue.
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail..
Nonsubmission :: Nonsubmission (n.) Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.
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..
Missuccess :: Missuccess (n.) Failure.
Defailance :: Defailance (n.) Failure; miscarriage.
Abortive :: Abortive (v.) Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt..
Fault :: Fault (n.) A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
Condition :: Condition (n.) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study..
Fizzle :: Fizzle (v. i.) To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc..
Miscognize :: Miscognize (v. t.) To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand.
Inexhaustible :: Inexhaustible (a.) Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words..
Immortification :: Immortification (n.) Failure to mortify the passions.
Short :: Short (v. i.) To fail; to decrease.
Miscarriage :: Miscarriage (n.) Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous..
Default :: Default (v. i.) To fail in duty; to offend.
Lose :: Lose (v. t.) To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said..
Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.
Trusty :: Trusty (superl.) Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm..
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