(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(v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.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.
Flunk
Definition:
(v. i.) To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.
(v. t.) To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty.
(n.) A failure or backing out
(n.) a total failure in a recitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even now, there is a sense that it could go either way, that we might pass this mammoth test or flunk it.
(2) The watchdog flunked the opportunity to extend the price cap to all those acknowledged to be stuck on over-priced standard variable tariffs and last summer dumped suggestions the big firms should be broken up.
(3) News that the eurozone had flunked its Greek test, again, sent the euro sliding (down half a cent to $1.275).
(4) In the nationwide panic over inheritance tax – David Cameron’s 2007 vote-winning pledge to raise the threshold to £1m is cited as the main reason why Gordon Brown flunked a decision to call an election – the only real winners have been the very well-off.
(5) Photograph: NIESR Updated at 4.27pm BST 4.23pm BST First it was Germany's banks ( 8.07am ) now it's America's car industry which is feeling the love from the ratings agencies... Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) BREAKING: Ford, Ford Motor credit raised to investment grade by S&P September 6, 2013 3.54pm BST Back in Europe, and the Open Europe thinktank has published an interesting theorette today - about how Germany's far left Die Linke party could hold the balance of power after the general elections on 22 September: This is how Merkel could flunk the elections: enter the Far Left It all relies on the fact that parties need to win 5% of the vote to win seats in the Bundestag, and Angela Merkel's coalition partners, the Free Democrats, are hovering close to the cliff-edge.
(6) If the prime minister flunks this energy-saving test, he will confirm the Sun's story, and look like the weak victim of the short-term pressures he once promised to fight.
(7) "The one test he had, he flunked," said a party apparatchik, referring to Johnson's defeat in the 2007 deputy leadership contest.
(8) He flunked the test and this was the turning point in the debate.
(9) Did I tell you I had just been thrown out for flunking four subjects?
(10) The banks that flunked out only need to raise an additional €2.5bn capital, although 16 others passed only by the skin of their teeth and will have to take measures to shore up their financial position.
(11) The manager, Gus Poyet, had suggested that his players were playing for their places in next Sunday's Capital One Cup final against Manchester City; this was an audition flunked.
(12) Mr Brown also accused Mr Cameron of flunking his "Clause 4 moment" over grammar schools, caving into his party instead of supporting his education spokesman.
(13) Well, mostly just the protagonist Chip Baskets (Galifianakis), a clown who flunks out of clown school in Paris – he enrolled without knowing French – and returns home to Bakersfield, California.
(14) He subsequently flunked out of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst after contracting gonorrhoea.
(15) Having come up with the idea and agreed to the targets, the banks then flunked the most important one, on lending to small businesses.
(16) In certain special situations in psychoanalytic treatment there is a need to mobilize ego strength: (1) those patients who are "so infantile" that they need ego strengthening to mature sufficiently to cope with their lives; (2) patients who regress partially during psychoanalysis and cannot progress without analytic intervention to help strengthen their ego; (3) those patients with a strong tendency toward regression whose egos need immediate strengthening in analysis to prevent an immobilizing regression; (4) those patients for whom a stressful reality situation so undermines their confidence that they fall into a severe regression and need to be helped out of this as an emergency to avoid permanent trouble, such as flunking out of school or getting fired from their jobs.
(17) Despite flunking his accountancy exams the first time round, Rake became Britain's best-paid accountant.
(18) The son of an affluent businessman, he flunked his way through school.
(19) In Brighton last week, Gordon Brown flunked it, preferring to stress spending pledges over coming austerity.