We found 40 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word fail:
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 General (25 matching dictionaries)
- fail: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- fail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- fail: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- fail: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Fail: Wiktionary [home, info]
- fail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- fail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- fail: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- fail: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- fail: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- fail: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- fail: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- fail: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
- Fail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Fail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- fail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- fail: Rhymezone [home, info]
- fail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- fail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- fail: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- fail: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- fail: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- Fail, fail: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- fail: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- fail: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Business (9 matching dictionaries)
- Fail: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
- fail: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
- fail: INVESTORWORDS [home, info]
- Fail: AMEX Dictionary of Financial Risk Management [home, info]
- fail: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
- Fail: Bloomberg Financial Glossary [home, info]
- Fail: Investopedia [home, info]
- Fail: Taxopedia [home, info]
- fail: Financial dictionary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- fail: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
- fail: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
- FAIL: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
- Fail: Acronym Finder [home, info]
- fail: Idioms [home, info]
Tech (1 matching dictionary)
- fail: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
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Quick definitions (fail)
▸ verb: become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close ("A number of banks failed that year")
▸ verb: fall short in what is expected ("She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law")
▸ verb: fail to get a passing grade ("She studied hard but failed nevertheless")
▸ verb: judge unacceptable ("The teacher failed six students")
▸ verb: be unsuccessful ("Where do today's public schools fail?")
▸ verb: fail to do something; leave something undone ("She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib")
▸ verb: be unable ("I fail to understand your motives")
▸ verb: stop operating or functioning ("The engine failed on the way to town")
▸ verb: prove insufficient ("The water supply for the town failed after a long drought")
▸ verb: get worse
▸ verb: disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake ("His sense of smell failed him this time")
▸ name: A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #20916)
▸ U.S. pronunciation (credits)
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