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31fail — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abort, age, bankrupt, be a gas, be a hit, be caught napping, be found wanting, be inferior, be insufficient, be neglectful, be negligent, be ruined, be unfaithful, be unsuccessful, become insolvent, bill, bomb …
32fail — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To be unsuccessful] Syn. miscarry, fall short, miss, slip, lose, make nothing of, come to naught, come to nothing, falter, flounder, blunder, break down, break, run aground, founder, misfire, come to grief, get into trouble …
33fail — [13] Fail, fallacy [15], fallible, false, and fault all come ultimately from the same source – the Latin verb fallere. This originally meant ‘deceive’, but it developed semantically to ‘deceive someone’s hopes, disappoint someone’, and in its… …
34fail — n. a failing grade; a grade of F. (Compare this with pass.) □ Sorry, this paper’s a fail if I ever saw one. □ I pulled a fail in stat …
35fail — [13] Fail, fallacy [15], fallible, false, and fault all come ultimately from the same source – the Latin verb fallere. This originally meant ‘deceive’, but it developed semantically to ‘deceive someone’s hopes, disappoint someone’, and in its… …
36fail — See: WITHOUT FAIL …
37fail — See: WITHOUT FAIL …
38fail — See: without fail …
39fail — to display the symptoms of old age Literally, not to succeed, or to discontinue. The condition so described may long antecede death, when a vital organ may really cease to function, as with heart failure: People fail, I said. Father is… …
40fail — verb 1》 be unsuccessful in an undertaking. ↘be unable to meet the standards set by (a test). ↘judge (a candidate in an examination or test) not to have passed. 2》 neglect to do something. ↘disappoint expectations: commuter chaos has… …