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fail

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"Not succeed"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /feɪl/Part of speech verbSorted afilStarts with FEnds with L1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. To not succeed, stop working, or fall short.

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English failen, borrowed from Old French falir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere (“to deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰāl- (“to lie, deceive”) or Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble”).

Used in a sentence

  • Throughout my life, I have always failed.
  • The truck failed to start.
  • The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.

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