failing

verb

To be unsuccessful.
Throughout my life, I have always failed.
Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
The truck failed to start.
To neglect.
The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.
Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
After running five minutes, the engine failed.
To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
I failed English last year.
To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.
To miss attaining; to lose.
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
The crops failed last year.
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
A sick man fails.
To perish; to die; used of a person.
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
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.

noun

preposition

If the preferred or prior option is not possible
A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement.

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