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fail

–verb (used without object)

1.	to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.

2.	to receive less than the passing grade or mark in an examination, class, or course of study: He failed in history.

3.	to be or become deficient or lacking; be insufficient or absent; fall short: Our supplies failed.

4.	to dwindle, pass, or die away: The flowers failed for lack of rain.

5.	to lose strength or vigor; become weak: His health failed after the operation.

6.	to become unable to meet or pay debts or business obligations; become insolvent or bankrupt.

7.	(of a building member, structure, machine part, etc.) to break, bend, crush, or be otherwise destroyed or made useless because of an excessive load.

8.	to stop functioning or operating: The electricity failed during the storm.

–verb (used with object)

9.	to be unsuccessful in the performance or completion of: He failed to do his duty.

10.	(of some expected or usual resource) to prove of no use or help to: His friends failed him. Words failed her.

11.	to receive less than a passing grade or mark in: He failed history.

12.	to declare (a person) unsuccessful in a test, course of study, etc.; give less than a passing grade to: The professor failed him in history.

–noun

13.

Stock Exchange.

a.	a stockbroker's inability to deliver or receive security within the required time after sale or purchase.

b.	such an undelivered security.

14.	Obsolete. failure as to performance, occurrence, etc.

—Idiom

15.	without fail, with certainty; positively: I will visit you tomorrow without fail.

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME failen < AF, OF faillir < VL *fallīre, for L fallere to disappoint, deceive

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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.]

definitely or certainly
Example: I shall do it tomorrow without fail.