fail

1. 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. Source: opted

2. v. i. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of. Source: opted

3. v. i. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink. Source: opted

4. v. i. To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails. Source: opted

5. v. i. To perish; to die; -- used of a person. Source: opted

6. 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. Source: opted

7. v. i. To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated. Source: opted

8. v. i. To err in judgment; to be mistaken. Source: opted

9. 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. Source: opted

10. v. t. To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert. Source: opted

11. v. t. To miss of attaining; to lose. Source: opted

12. v. i. Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail. Source: opted

13. v. i. Death; decease. Source: opted

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