Associations to the word «Fail»

FAIL, verb. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.

FAIL, verb. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

FAIL, verb. (transitive) To neglect.

FAIL, verb. (intransitive) (of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.

FAIL, verb. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.

FAIL, verb. (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.

FAIL, verb. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.

FAIL, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.

FAIL, verb. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.

FAIL, verb. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.

FAIL, verb. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

FAIL, verb. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.

FAIL, verb. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.

FAIL, verb. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

FAIL, verb. 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.

FAIL, noun. (uncountable) (slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.

FAIL, noun. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)

FAIL, noun. (slang) (US) A failure (something incapable of success)

FAIL, noun. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).

FAIL, noun. A failing grade in an academic examination.

FAIL, adjective. (slang) (US) That is a failure.

FAIL, noun. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

FAIL AT LIFE, verb. (internet slang) To be or become trapped in poverty, or in a situation where someone is not doing anything productive with their lives; to become a loser.

FAIL AT LIFE, verb. (idiomatic) (internet slang) To do something disappointing, especially to fail at something (sarcastically treating a person as if they had failed their entire life).

FAIL OVER, verb. To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component.

FAIL, verb. Fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account".

FAIL, verb. Be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably".

FAIL, verb. Disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis".

FAIL, verb. Stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident".

FAIL, verb. Be unable; "I fail to understand your motives".

FAIL, verb. Judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students".

FAIL, verb. Fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?".

FAIL, verb. Fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust".

FAIL, verb. Become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year".

FAIL, verb. Prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought".

FAIL, verb. Get worse; "Her health is declining".