failed

/feɪld/

To be unsuccessful.

Throughout my life, I have always failed.

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

The truck failed to start.

To neglect.

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

Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.

After running five minutes, the engine failed.

To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.

To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.

I failed English last year.

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.

To miss attaining; to lose.

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.

The crops failed last year.

To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.

To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.

A sick man fails.

To perish; to die; used of a person.

To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

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.

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