vi death; decease.
2. fail ·vi to err in judgment; to be mistaken.
3. fail ·vt to miss of attaining; to lose.
4. fail ·vi to perish; to die;
used of a person.
5. fail ·vi to come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
6. fail ·vi to deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, ·etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
7. fail ·vt to be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
8. fail ·vi to be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided;
used with of.
9. fail ·vi miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault;
mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
10. fail ·vi to fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
11. fail ·vi 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. fail ·vi 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.
13. fail ·vi 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.