(n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
(n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
(n.) Want of success; the state of having failed.
(n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
(n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
(n.) A failing; a slight fault.
Example Sentences:
(1) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
(2) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(3) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
(4) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
(5) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
(6) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(7) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(8) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
(9) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
(10) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(11) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
(12) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(13) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
(14) The failure rates of the 2 regimens to suppress lactation were similar; however, rebound lactation occurred in a small proportion of women treated with bromocriptine.
(15) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
(16) Blood samples from 23 subjects with chronic renal failure and 19 controls were tested using thrombelastography and other hematologic tests.
(17) Cardiac pump function is not affected, even in patients with ventricular dysfunction or heart failure, in whom chronic oral administration of the drug is well tolerated.
(18) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
(19) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
(20) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
Stink
Definition:
(v. i.) To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
(v. t.) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
(n.) A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ken Livingstone's campaign said: "It stinks of the abuse of public resources for the Conservative party to appropriate the official social media of the mayor.
(2) But nothing has been done about the stinking open sewers that run through the densely packed community and overflow whenever there is heavy rain.
(3) Those Lords resisting an elected chamber had better prove their vaunted independence by kicking up an almighty stink at being denied any voice in the main cuts legislation whizzing through Westminster.
(4) Rare that a story stinks from every possible angle: the source, the content, the consequence, the messenger, the target,” tweeted Wolfgang Blau, chief digital officer of Condé Nast International and a former Guardian executive.
(5) For many people in this former railway town, the lies told by a politician do not stink as much as the pooch problem.
(6) Candidate members of the family include kangaroo hepatitis virus (KHV) and stink snake hepatitis virus (SSHV).
(7) wen we 1st met at one of her regular dog fights, i was bein sick cos of all the blood and she came up 2 me and sed 'all dogs deserve to suffr cos they stink and they are stupid'.
(8) But the wages still stink, the hours are still brutal, and the children are still there, stitching away in the backstreets of the slums.
(9) Some Romney supporters might argue that this election is still about the economy and the economy stinks – bad for the incumbent.
(10) And when you ask someone who’s passed along some specious “don’t get raped” tips or suggested a self-defense class to a woman concerned about rapes in her neighborhood what they were thinking, they’re likely to respond with something like “Better safe than sorry!” Translation: Even if what I’m telling you to remember is a pile of stinking horseshit, you should still engage in this ritualized expression of anxiety with me, because it makes me feel slightly better about things I can’t control.
(11) This time it was so obviously, demonstratively false, that it cut through the usual stink cloud of dubious accuracy that hovers over Fox at all times, and caused international outrage as opposed to just tweaking American liberals.
(12) They marched with signs that read, “Fear City, Stink City and now, Stupid City.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Striking New York garbagemen stand by signs reading “Stink City” AND “Abe is nuts”.
(13) Jeremy, stinking and stinging rather than digging for interview victory, can't match what James O'Brien of LBC did to Farage last month .
(14) One minute it's all "when will you WAKE UP to the fact that your STINKING LIBERAL MANURE has DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY" and the next thing you know, you'll get a message saying, "Sorry I was testy, I just got stuck in traffic on my way back from the garden centre."
(15) The alarm call came a year later, when he woke up on the sofa one morning, stinking of booze, with his baby son crawling on him and half a can of beer on the floor next to him.
(16) Twice, Dughan boarded pitching, stinking decks to transmit to them close-up footage, from which they learnt nothing.
(17) Shami Chakrabarti has undermined the education system she argues for | Frances Ryan Read more It’s the system that stinks, of course, and it has to be fought at the policy level, not by individuals at the school gates.
(18) But what sticks in my craw is the sheer stinking, blunted crapness of them.
(19) The air stinks, the water stinks, and even the fish and crabs caught in Bodo creek smell of pure "sweet bonny" light crude oil.
(20) It is a real education for people as well to see seaweed as a food and not as the slimy green, black stuff that you find stinking and rotting on the beach,” he adds.