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Verb fail has 11 senses
- fail, neglect - 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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Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- fail, go wrong, miscarry - be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"
Antonyms: succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods
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Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- fail, betray - 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"
--3 is one way to disappoint, let down
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down - 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"
--4 is one way to change
Sample sentence:
These cars won't fail
- fail - be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"
Antonyms: pull off, negociate, bring off, carry off, manage
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- fail - judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"
--6 is one way to judge
Antonyms: pass
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- fail, flunk, bomb, flush it - fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"
Antonyms: pass, make it
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Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
- 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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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
- 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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Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- fail, run out, give out - prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"
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Something ----s
- fail - get worse; "Her health is declining"
--11 is one way to worsen, decline
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Something ----s
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