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fails definition and meaning
v. i.
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.
v. i.
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
v. i.
To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
v. i.
To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
v. i.
To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
v. i.
To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
v. i.
To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
v. i.
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
v. i.
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.
v. t.
To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
v. t.
To miss of attaining; to lose.
v. i.
Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
v. i.
Death; decease.
Crossword clues for fails
- Alternate feasible founder
- Be unsuccessful
- Become weaker
- Come unstuck
- Die
- Flop
- Flunk
- Give out
- Go belly up
- Go pear-shaped in front of safe
- Neglect (to do something)
- Run aground
- Doesn’t pass
- Doesn’t pass a test
- Is unsuccessful
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