fail vs get

fail

verb
  • To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence. 

  • Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.) 

  • 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. 

  • To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits. 

  • To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour. 

  • To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations. 

  • To neglect. 

  • To be unsuccessful. 

  • Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly. 

noun
  • A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action). 

  • A failure (condition of being unsuccessful). 

  • A failing grade in an academic examination. 

  • Poor quality; substandard workmanship. 

  • A failure (something incapable of success). 

  • A piece of turf cut from grassland. 

adj
  • Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way. 

get

verb
  • To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable). 

  • To be. Used to form the passive of verbs. 

  • To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution. 

  • To cause to become; to bring about. 

  • To kill. 

  • To receive. 

  • To getter. 

  • To obtain; to acquire. 

  • To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service). 

  • To begin (doing something or to do something). 

  • To have. See usage notes. 

  • To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state). 

  • To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc). 

  • To cause to do. 

  • To fetch, bring, take. 

  • To become, or cause oneself to become. 

  • To understand. (compare get it) 

  • To catch out, trick successfully. 

  • To find as an answer. 

  • To hear completely; catch. 

  • To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.). 

  • Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose. 

  • To go, to leave; to scram. 

  • To become ill with or catch (a disease). 

  • To measure. 

  • To cover (a certain distance) while travelling. 

  • To perplex, stump. 

  • To cause to come or go or move. 

noun
  • Lineage. 

  • Something gained; an acquisition. 

  • A git. 

  • A difficult return or block of a shot. 

  • A Jewish writ of divorce. 

How often have the words fail and get occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )