Definition of fail

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Fail (v. t.) To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.

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Infallibly :: Infallibly (adv.) In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly.
Defailance :: Defailance (n.) Failure; miscarriage.
Escheat :: Escheat (n.) The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same..
Nonconformity :: Nonconformity (n.) Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship..
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..
Guaranty :: Guaranty (n.) In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t..
Nonpresentation :: Nonpresentation (n.) Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
Failed :: Failed (imp. & p. p.) of Fai.
Foil :: Foil (n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) Death; decease.
Nonadmission :: Nonadmission (n.) Failure to be admitted.
Incognizance :: Incognizance (n.) Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice..
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates..
Bezoar :: Bezoar (n.) A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea..
Falter :: Falter (v. & n.) To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.
Vail :: Vail (v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
Omission :: Omission (n.) The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.
Skunk :: Skunk (v. t.) In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king..
Default :: Default (v. i.) To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty..
Nondeposition :: Nondeposition (n.) A failure to deposit or throw down.
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