Sekirov Dictionary

fail

/feɪl/

verb15

  1. to not be successful
  2. Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
  3. To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
  4. Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
  5. To neglect.
  6. To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
  7. To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
  8. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
  9. 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.
  10. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
  11. To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
  12. (no longer used) To miss attaining; to lose.
  13. (no longer used) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
  14. (no longer used) To perish; to die; used of a person.
  15. (no longer used) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

noun5

  1. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
  2. (slang) A failure (something incapable of success).
  3. (slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
  4. A failing grade in an academic examination.
  5. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

adjective1

  1. (slang) Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.
forms

fail'd · failed · failing · faileth · fails · failest · more fail · most fail

Phrases with fail

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