A failure (something incapable of success).
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 piece of turf cut from grassland.
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 be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
To neglect.
To be unsuccessful.
Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.
A temporary failure; a slip.
A decline or fall in standards.
A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
A pause in continuity.
A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
A fall or apostasy.
An interval of time between events.
A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
memory lapse
To fall away gradually; to subside.
To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
To become void.
To fall into error or heresy.
To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.