(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(v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intrathecal injection of zopiclone potentiated morphine antinociception, while the intracerebroventricular injection of zopiclone failed to enhance morphine antinociception and the intracerebroventricular injection of flumazepil to antagonize the intraperitoneal-zopiclone-induced increase in morphine antinociception.
(2) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(3) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(4) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
(5) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(6) Several efforts to extradite Polanski to California have failed.
(7) Administration of aminonucleoside and daunomycin produced proteinuria but did not cause a decrease in lipid P. Anticollagen and anti-lymphocyte sera that attached to the basement membrane but failed to produce proteinuria, also failed to affect the phospholipid content.
(8) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(9) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(10) Four of the nine patients failed to show any clinical or hematological improvement.
(11) In cases in which CT was also performed, it revealed corresponding hypodensities in two infarctions, but failed to reveal the foci of gliosis (or noncavital infarction), demyelination, or brain cyst.
(12) Even in the failed cases, 25-42% of subjects considered the treatment as good.
(13) Dzeko he has failed to hold down a starting berth since his £27m move in January 2011.
(14) Prothrombin isolation on DEAE Sephadex failed to separate the abnormal population (prothrombin Clamart) from the normal one.
(15) The starting point is the idea that the current system, because it works against biodiversity but fails to increase productivity, is broken.
(16) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(17) In contrast, albino rats and rabbits failed to succumb to overt disease by subcutaneous and intraperitoneal routes of inoculation.
(18) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(19) In the controlled wound care group, only three ulcers in three patients achieved complete healing; the remaining 24 ulcers in 20 patients failed to achieve even 50% healing in the stipulated 3-month period.
(20) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
Farl
Definition:
(v. t.) Same as Furl.
Example Sentences:
(1) • You could use any left-over mashed potato to make your next batch of farls.
(2) The less flour and bicarb you use, the denser and moister the farl.
(3) • Farls taste great as an accompaniment to curry.
(4) They provide fertile ground for experimentation with almost no chance of failure – it is hard to cook a bad farl.
(5) For the nervous or novice baker, potato farls are a wonderful way to get started.
(6) Farl experiments melted butter and a sprinkling of salt Photograph: Jill Mead for the Guardian • Make a much lighter, fluffier farl.
(7) • Try making potato farls with fine oatmeal instead of flour.
(8) "Dinner was always potato farls with black pudding and white pudding," she remembers happily.
(9) Recipe by Jane Baxter How to serve your farl Nowadays, farls are most often served with a cooked breakfast or at teatime.
(10) It isn’t so much a cake, in fact, as an entire Ulster breakfast that they want to see sizzling and permanently undiminished on their plate while at the same time forking it, item by fried item – potato farls followed by sausage followed by bacon, eggs and black pudding – down their ready gullets.
(11) I had about 20 people over to my house and we cooked proper potato farls, potato cakes, soda bread and Irish sausages.
(12) The recipe we have given here is for a nice, rich, dense farl – best, in my book, served with nothing but lashings of melted butter and a sprinkling of salt – but we have given other serving ideas.
(13) It's the full English and then some – with added fried soda farl and potato bread.
(14) Potato farls also work well in any recipe that would normally use a muffin, so top them with smoked salmon (or fried mushrooms) and a soft poached egg.
(15) Potato farls Prep time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes Makes 8 small farls 500g floury potatoes, such as King Edward or desiree 50g butter 50g plain flour, plus extra for rolling out ¼ tsp baking powder Salt and black pepper Extra butter, for cooking 1 Peel the potatoes, then cut them into quarters.
(16) The word farl literally means "fourths": they are shaped from a circle of dough cut into quarters.