Failed Synonyms & Definitions

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• FailedDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Fail

• FailDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (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.
2. (v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
3. (v. t.) To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
4. (v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.
5. (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.
6. (v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
7. (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.
8. (v. i.) To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
9. (v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
10. (v. i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
11. (v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
12. (v. i.) Death; decease.
13. (v. i.) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.