Fail

Definition:

  • (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.
  • (v. i.) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
  • (v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
  • (v. i.) To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
  • (v. i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
  • (v. i.) To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
  • (v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
  • (v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
  • (v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.
  • (v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
  • (v. i.) Death; decease.

Compare fail with other words:

descend vs. fail

fail vs. kail

fail vs. farl

fail vs. flail

fail vs. wail

fail vs. fain

bail vs. fail

fail vs. vail

fail vs. jail

fail vs. hail

fail vs. fair

fail vs. sail

fail vs. nail

fail vs. mail

fail vs. pail

fail vs. fil

fail vs. tail

fail vs. rail

ail vs. fail

fail vs. lack

defeat vs. fail

down vs. fail

fail vs. fell

fail vs. stop

fail vs. sale

fail vs. mischief

fail vs. manage

fail vs. failed

fail vs. sort

fail vs. loose

fail vs. forget

burn vs. fail

fail vs. misregard

fail vs. misken

fail vs. loss

fail vs. lapse

absent vs. fail

fail vs. muss

fail vs. fall

fail vs. fault

fail vs. plummet

fail vs. speed

fail vs. pass

fail vs. foil

fail vs. overload

awesome vs. fail

disaccord vs. fail

fail vs. miscarry

fail vs. flunk

fail vs. literal

fail vs. shoot

fail vs. foiled

fail vs. renounce

fail vs. welch

contravene vs. fail

exceed vs. fail

fail vs. surely

fail vs. fallible

fail vs. fallacious

fail vs. thwart

fail vs. loser

fail vs. miss

fail vs. fallacy

fail vs. frail

fail vs. flop

fail vs. truck

fail vs. transaction

examination vs. fail

fail vs. financial

fail vs. failure

fail vs. succeed

academic vs. fail

endeavour vs. fail

fail vs. grade

fail vs. passing

desert vs. fail

disappoint vs. fail

fail vs. insufficient

fail vs. wanting

fail vs. operate

cease vs. fail

fail vs. neglect

fail vs. goal

achieve vs. fail

fail vs. unsuccessful

fail vs. secure

fail vs. tank

break vs. fail

fail vs. lose

bomb vs. fail

fail vs. win

abort vs. fail

abate vs. fail