fail

fail

fail (third-person singular simple present fails, present participle failing, simple past and past participle failed)

1. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.

   Throughout my life, I have always failed.

2. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

   The truck failed to start.

3. (transitive) To neglect.

   The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.

4. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.

   After running five minutes, the engine failed.

5. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. II, Gospel of Mammonism

     A poor Irish Widow […] went forth with her three children, bare of all resource, to solicit help from the Charitable Establishments of that City. At this Charitable Establishment and then at that she was refused; referred from one to the other, helped by none; — till she had exhausted them all; till her strength and heart failed her: she sank down in typhus-fever […]

6. (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.

   I failed in English last year.

7. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.

   The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.

fail (plural fails)

1. a failure, especially of a financial transaction
2. a failing grade in an academic examination

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