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Definition of "fail"
verb: be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"
verb: prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"
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"
verb: fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"
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"
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 coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
verb: judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"
verb: get worse; "Her health is declining"
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"
verb: be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"
verb: fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"

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Senses Fail is an American band based in Ridgewood, New Jersey, formed in 2002. (More)

A fail-safe describes a device which, if or when it fails, will cause a minimum of harm. Fail-safe may also refer to: Fail-Safe, a 1962 novel about an accidental sortie of American ... (More)

Failure (fail, phail or flop) in general refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. It may be viewed as the opposite of success. (More)

Fail-safe or fail-secure describes a device or feature which, in the event of failure, responds in a way that will cause no harm or at least a minimum of harm to other devices or ... (More)

Fail-deadly is a concept in nuclear military strategy which encourages deterrence by guaranteeing an immediate, automatic and overwhelming response to an attack. (More)

Fail Comics is a comic book publisher and creative studio based in Ireland but with international members. History. Fail comics was founded in 2005 by Gareth Cummins and Paul Duffy ... (More)

Fail-Safe is a novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, published in 1962. The popular and critically acclaimed novel was first adapted into a 1964 film of the same name ... (More)

Fail Safe is a televised play, based on Fail-Safe, the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, and broadcast in 2000. The play, broadcast live in black and white on ... (More)

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Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party (Irish: Fianna Fáil – An Páirtí Poblachtánach), shortened to Fianna Fáil (Irish pronunciation: [ˌfʲiənə ˈfɔːlʲ]) is currently ... (More)

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