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fail - be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" |
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miscarry |
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bring home the bacon,
come through,
deliver the goods,
succeed,
win be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford"; "Will Charles succeed to the throne?"
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take it on the chin undergo failure or defeat
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miss fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
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overreach fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
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ball up,
blow,
bobble,
bodge,
bollix,
bollix up,
bollocks,
bollocks up,
botch,
botch up,
bumble,
bungle,
flub,
fluff,
foul up,
fuck up,
fumble,
louse up,
mess up,
mishandle,
muck up,
muff,
screw up,
spoil exhale hard; "blow on the soup to cool it down"
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strike out set out on a course of action; "He struck out on his own"
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fall pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work"
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shipwreck destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked"
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fall flat,
fall through,
flop,
founder fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"
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fail - 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" |
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die,
break |
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buy the farm,
cash in one's chips,
choke,
conk,
croak,
decease,
die,
drop dead,
exit,
expire,
give-up the ghost,
go,
kick the bucket,
pass,
pass away,
perish,
pop off,
snuff it breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
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break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death"
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change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
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crash,
go down stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
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blow,
blow out,
burn out exhale hard; "blow on the soup to cool it down"
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misfire fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired"
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malfunction,
misfunction fail to function or function improperly; "the coffee maker malfunctioned"
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fail - 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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neglect |
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lose track fail to keep informed or aware; "She has so many books, she just lost track and cannot find this volume"
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strike out set out on a course of action; "He struck out on his own"
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default,
default on fail to pay up
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choke breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
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muff fail to catch, as of a ball
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miss fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
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fail - fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" |
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flunk,
bomb |
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make it,
pass travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"
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fail get worse; "Her health is declining"
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fail get worse; "Her health is declining"
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fail - judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students" |
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bomb,
fail,
flunk,
flush it get worse; "Her health is declining"
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pass travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"
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evaluate,
judge,
pass judgment form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"
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fail - 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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bomb,
fail,
flunk,
flush it get worse; "Her health is declining"
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fail - get worse; "Her health is declining" |
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decline,
worsen grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
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fail - 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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betray |
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disappoint,
let down fail to meet the hopes or expectations of; "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage"
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fail - 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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fail - be unable; "I fail to understand your motives" |
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bring off,
carry off,
manage,
negociate,
pull off be in charge of, act on, or dispose of; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old"
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fail - prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought" |