failed

adj. unsuccessful; weakened, reduced

v. be unsuccessful; make unsuccessful; not do; be weakened; disappoint; go bankrupt; be stopped; be used up, run out

Adjective
1. unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business venture"
(synonym) failing
(similar) unsuccessful

Verb
1. 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"
(synonym) neglect
(hyponym) strike out
(derivation) failure
2. be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"
(synonym) go wrong, miscarry
(antonym) succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods
(hyponym) take it on the chin
(derivation) failure
3. 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"
(synonym) betray
(hypernym) disappoint, let down
4. 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"
(synonym) go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) crash, go down
(verb-group) die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass
(derivation) failure
5. be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"
(antonym) pull off, negociate, bring off, carry off, manage
6. judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"
(antonym) pass
(hypernym) judge
(verb-group) flunk, bomb, flush it
(derivation) failing
7. fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"
(synonym) flunk, bomb, flush it
(antonym) pass, make it
(derivation) failing
8. 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"
(verb-group) flunk, bomb, flush it
(derivation) failure
9. 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"
(derivation) bankruptcy, failure
10. prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"
(synonym) run out, give out
11. get worse; "Her health is declining"
(hypernym) worsen, decline

FAILED, FAILURE - A bill that does not receive a majority vote on the chamber floor.

FAILURE - A total defect; an omission; a non-performance. Failure also signifies a stoppage of payment; as there has been a failure today, some one has stopped payment.
    According to the French code of commerce every merchant or trader who suspends payment is in a state of failure.

FAILURE OF ISSUE - When there is a want of issue to take an estate limited over by an executory devise.
    Failure of issue is definite or indefinite. When the precise time for the failure of issue is fixed by the will, as is the case of a devise to Peter, but if he dies without issue living at the time of his death, then to another, this is a failure of issue definite. An indefinite failure of issue is the very converse or opposite of this and it signifies a general failure of issue, whenever it may happen, without fixing any time or a certain or definite period, within which it must happen.

FAILURE OF RECORD - The neglect to produce the record after having pleaded it. When a defendant pleads a matter and offers to prove it by the record and then pleads nul tiel record, a day is given to the defendant to bring in the record, and if he fails to do so, he is said to fail and there being a failure of record, the plaintiff is entitled to judgment.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.

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Falling behind Sun Shan.
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