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mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.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