·vi Death; decease.
II. Fail ·vi To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
III. Fail ·vt To miss of attaining; to Lose.
IV. Fail ·vi To Perish; to Die;
— used of a person.
V. Fail ·vi To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
VI. Fail ·vi To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, ·etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
VII. Fail ·vt To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to Disappoint; to Desert.
VIII. Fail ·vi To be affected with want; to come short; to Lack; to be deficient or unprovided;
— used with of.
IX. Fail ·vi Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault;
— mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
X. Fail ·vi To fall away; to become diminished; to Decline; to Decay; to Sink.
XI. 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.
XII. 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.
XIII. 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.