fail
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(verb) get worse; "Her health is declining" |
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Related Words: decline, worsen |
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(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 coffe maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town" |
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Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, give out, give way, go |
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Related Words: blow, blow out, burn out, change, crash, go down, malfunction, misfire, misfunction |
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(verb) prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought" |
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Synonyms: give out, run out |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: betray |
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Related Words: disappoint, let down |
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(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" |
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(verb) fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law" |
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(verb) fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" |
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Synonyms: bomb, flunk, flush it |
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Antonyms: pass |
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(verb) judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students" |
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Related Words: judge |
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Antonyms: pass |
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(verb) be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt tp rescue the hostages failed miserably" |
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Synonyms: go wrong, miscarry |
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Related Words: ball up, blow, blunder, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bungle, fall, fall flat, fall through, flop, flub, fluff, foul up, founder, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, miss, muck up, muff, overreach, screw up, shipwreck, spoil, take it on the chin |
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Antonyms: succeed |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: neglect |
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Related Words: default, default on, miss, muff |
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(verb) be unable; "I fail to understand your motives" |
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Antonyms: manage |
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