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(intransitive) To be unsuccessful. / (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.) / (transitive) To neglect.

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fail

/feɪl/

verb

(intransitive) To be unsuccessful. / (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.) / (transitive) To neglect.

I hope I don't fail the exam.

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意味（1）

(intransitive) To be unsuccessful.

Throughout my life, I have always failed.

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意味（2）

The truck failed to start.

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意味（3）

(transitive) To neglect.

The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.

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意味（4）

(intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.

After running five minutes, the engine failed.

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意味（5）

(transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one’s expectations.

There shall not fail thee a man on the throne.

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意味（6）

(transitive, intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.

I failed English last year.

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意味（7）

(transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.

The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.

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意味（8）

(transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.

though that seat of earthly bliss be failed

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意味（9）

The crops failed last year.

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意味（10）

(archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.

If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not to be attributed to their size.

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意味（11）

(archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

When earnestly they seek / Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.

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意味（12）

(archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.

A sick man fails.

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意味（13）

(obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.

had the king in his last sickness failed

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意味（14）

(obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps / Shall grieve him, if I fail not.

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