DICTOMETER

FAIL

(fail, desgraciar, fallar, follar, marrar, perder, suspender, zozobrar, bomme, feile, forsømme, mislykkes, slå feil, stryke, svikte)

1. Synonyms:
   • Fail
   • Neglect
   Definitions:
   • fail to do something
   • leave something undone
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Fail
   • Go wrong
   • Miscarry
   Definitions:
   • be unsuccessful
   Examples:
   • Where do today's public schools fail?
   • The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably
   Antonyms:
   pull off, negociate, bring off, carry off, manage
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Fail
   • Betray
   Definitions:
   • disappoint, prove undependable to
   • abandon, forsake
   Examples:
   • His sense of smell failed him this time
   • His strength finally failed him
   • His children failed him in the crisis
   Antonyms:
   pass
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Fail
   • Go bad
   • Give way
   • Die
   • Give out
   • Conk out
   • Go
   • Break
   • Break down
   Definitions:
   • stop operating or functioning
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   pass, make it
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Fail
   Definitions:
   • be unable
   Examples:
   • I fail to understand your motives
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Fail
   Definitions:
   • judge unacceptable
   Examples:
   • The teacher failed six students
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Fail
   • Flunk
   • Bomb
   • Flush it
   Definitions:
   • fail to get a passing grade
   Examples:
   • She studied hard but failed nevertheless
   • Did I fail the test?
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Fail
   Definitions:
   • fall short in what is expected
   Examples:
   • She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law
   • We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Fail
   Definitions:
   • become bankrupt or insolvent
   • fail financially and close
   Examples:
   • The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor
   • A number of banks failed that year
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Fail
    • Run out
    • Give out
    Definitions:
    • prove insufficient
    Examples:
    • The water supply for the town failed after a long drought
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Fail
    Definitions:
    • get worse
    Examples:
    • Her health is declining