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(1):

(v. i.) Death; decease.

(2):

(v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

(3):

(v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired; to be baffled or frusrated.

(4):

(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.

(5):

(v. i.) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; - used with of.

(6):

(v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

(7):

(v. i.) To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

(8):

(v. i.) To perish; to die; - used of a person.

(9):

(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.

(10):

(v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; - mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.

(11):

(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.

(12):

(v. t.) To be wanting to; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.

(13):

(v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fail'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​f/fail.html. 1828.
 
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