English to English
noun
- Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
source: Webster 1913
verb
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- be unsuccessful
Where do today's public schools fail?.
The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- be unable
I fail to understand your motives.
source: WordNet 3.0
- judge unacceptable
The teacher failed six students.
source: WordNet 3.0
- fail to get a passing grade
She studied hard but failed nevertheless.
Did I fail the test?.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- prove insufficient
The water supply for the town failed after a long drought.
source: WordNet 3.0
- get worse
Her health is declining.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
- To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
noun
- [feíl] Ligtâ; kaligtaan; kulang; kakulangan; kapahamakan; kapariwaraan
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
verb
- [feíl] Magkulang; máligtaan; mawalâ; maparam
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
