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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Infirmity :: Infirmity (a.) A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect.
Short :: Short (v. i.) To fail; to decrease.
Incompliance :: Incompliance (n.) Refusal or failure to comply.
Trusty :: Trusty (superl.) Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm..
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent..
Defailance :: Defailance (n.) Failure; miscarriage.
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.
Nonimportation :: Nonimportation (n.) Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.
Miscarry :: Miscarry (v. i.) To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat..
Failure :: Failure (n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops..
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege..
Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment..
Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef..
Flunk :: Flunk (n.) A failure or backing ou.
Defection :: Defection (n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding..
Wantrust :: Wantrust (n.) Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust.
Revoke :: Revoke (v. i.) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege..
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