Definition of failure

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Failure (n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight..

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Omission :: Omission (n.) The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.
Muff :: Muff (n.) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
Lesion :: Lesion (n.) Loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract.
Owing :: Owing (P. p. & a.) Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue, etc.; ascribable; -- with to; as, misfortunes are often owing to vices; his failure was owing to speculations..
Nondeposition :: Nondeposition (n.) A failure to deposit or throw down.
Connivance :: Connivance (n.) Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it..
Particularly :: Particularly (adv.) In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure..
Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse..
Irrecognition :: Irrecognition (n.) A failure to recognize; absence of recognition.
Immortification :: Immortification (n.) Failure to mortify the passions.
Sorehead :: Sorehead (n.) One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like..
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail..
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.
Stumbler :: Stumble (n.) A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
Failure :: Failure (n.) Want of success; the state of having failed.
Failance :: Failance (n.) Fault; failure; omission.
Failure :: Failure (n.) A failing; a slight fault.
Reentry :: Reentry (n.) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease..
Guaranty :: Guaranty (n.) In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security..
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..
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