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fail·ing

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–noun

1.	an act or instance of failing; failure: His failing is due to general incompetence.

2.	a defect or fault; shortcoming; weakness: His lack of knowledge is a grave failing.

–preposition

3.	in the absence or default of: Failing payment, we shall sue.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME; see fail, -ing¹

]

—Related forms

fail·ing·ly, adverb

fail·ing·ness, noun

—Synonyms 2. See fault.

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fail Audio Help   (fāl) Pronunciation Key
v.   failed, fail·ing, fails

v.   intr.

To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately: failed to fulfill their promises; failed in their attempt to reach the summit.
To be unsuccessful: an experiment that failed.
To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum.
To prove insufficient in quantity or duration; give out: The water supply failed during the drought.
To decline, as in strength or effectiveness: The light began to fail.
To cease functioning properly: The engine failed.
To give way or be made otherwise useless as a result of excessive strain: The rusted girders failed and caused the bridge to collapse.
To become bankrupt or insolvent: Their business failed during the last recession.

v. tr.

To disappoint or prove undependable to: Our sentries failed us.
To abandon; forsake: His strength failed him.
To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example): "We must . . . hold . . . those horrors up to the light of justice. Otherwise we would fail our inescapable obligation to the victims of Nazism: to remember" (Anthony Lewis).
To leave undone; neglect: failed to wash the dishes.
1. To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum in (a course, for example): failed algebra twice.
2. To give such a grade of failure to (a student): failed me in algebra.

Failure to deliver securities to a purchaser within a specified time.
Failure to receive the proceeds of a transaction, as in the sale of stock or securities, by a specified date.

[Middle English failen, from Old French faillir, from Vulgar Latin *fallīre, variant of Latin fallere, to deceive.]

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fail·ing Audio Help (fā'lĭng) Pronunciation Key
n.

The act of a person or thing that fails; a failure.
A minor fault.

adj. Undergoing failure: failing health; failing kidneys; a failing business.

prep. In the absence of; without: Failing new evidence, the case will surely be lost.

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WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This

failing
adjective
1.	below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades"
noun
1.	a flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings"
2.	failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his failing the course led to his disqualification"; "he got two flunks on his report" [ant: at length]

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ˈfailing noun

a fault or weakness
Example: He may have his failings, but he has always treated his children well.

Arabic:	ضَعْف، عَيْب، نَقْص
Chinese (Simplified):	缺点
Chinese (Traditional):	缺點
Czech:	chyba, slabost
Danish:	fejl; mangel
Dutch:	tekortkoming
Estonian:	puudus, viga
Finnish:	puute
French:	défaut
German:	der Fehler
Greek:	αδυναμία, ελάττωμα
Hungarian:	gyengeség, hiba
Icelandic:	annmarki, galli, veikleiki
Indonesian:	kelemahan
Italian:	difetto

Japanese:	弱点
Korean:	단점, 결점
Latvian:	trūkums; vājība
Lithuanian:	trūkumas, silpnybė
Norwegian:	feil, skavank, svakhet
Polish:	słabość
Portuguese (Brazil):	falha
Portuguese (Portugal):	falta
Romanian:	defect
Russian:	недостаток
Slovak:	chyba
Slovenian:	slabost
Spanish:	defecto, fallo, punto débil
Swedish:	fel, brist, svaghet
Turkish:	kusur, zaaf, zayıflık

ˈfailing preposition

if (something) fails or is lacking
Example: Failing his help, we shall have to try something else.

Arabic:	في حال عَدَم وُجود
Chinese (Simplified):	如果没有…
Chinese (Traditional):	如果沒有…
Czech:	při nedostatku
Danish:	i mangel af
Dutch:	bij gebrek aan
Estonian:	(millegi) puudusel
French:	à défaut de
German:	in Ermangelung
Greek:	χωρίς, αν λείψει
Hungarian:	vmi nélkül
Icelandic:	ef (e-ð) bregst
Indonesian:	tanpa
Italian:	in mancanza di*
Japanese:	～がなければ

Korean:	…이 없이는, …이 없을 경우에는
Latvian:	neizdošanās gadījumā; iztrūkstot; ja …
Lithuanian:	nesant, nepavykus gauti
Norwegian:	i mangel av
Polish:	jeśli zabraknie
Portuguese (Brazil):	em falta de
Portuguese (Portugal):	à falta de
Romanian:	în lipsa
Russian:	за неимением
Slovak:	bez
Slovenian:	brez
Spanish:	a falta de
Swedish:	i brist på
Turkish:	olmazsa, olmaması hâlinde

See also: failure, fail, without fail

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Failing

Fail\v. i. [imp. & p. p. Failed; p. pr. & vb. n. Failing.] [F. failir, fr. L. fallere, falsum, to deceive, akin to E. fall. See Fail, and cf. Fallacy, False, Fault.]

1. 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.

As the waters fail from the sea. --Job xiv. 11.

Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign. --Shak.

2. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.

If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be attributed to their size. --Berke.

3. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

When earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail. --Milton.

4. To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

5. To perish; to die; -- used of a person. [Obs.]

Had the king in his last sickness failed. --Shak.

6. 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.

Take heed now that ye fail not to do this. --Ezra iv. 22.

Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. --Shak.

7. To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired; to be baffled or frusrated.

Our envious foe hath failed. --Milton.

8. To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I fail not. --Milton.

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.

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