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Failing Meaning in French |
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English
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French
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échouer
, faiblir
, recaler
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défaut
, défaillance
, faiblesse
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Failing
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fail
- (n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing.
- (n.) The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.
Synonyms:
Declining, Deteriorating, Failed, Regressing, Retrograde, Retrogressive, Weakness,
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• Fail
- (v. i.) To become unable to meet ones engagements; especially, to be unable to pay ones debts or discharge ones business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- (v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
- (v. t.) To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
- (v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.
- (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- (v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
- (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 deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
- (v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
- (v. i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
- (v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
- (v. i.) Death; decease.
- (v. i.) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
Synonyms:
Betray, Bomb, Break, Die, Flunk, Go, Miscarry, Neglect,
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