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    [Verb]  | "fail" | \ ˈfāl \


    1: to lose strength : weaken

    2: to fade or die away

    3: to stop functioning normally

    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English failen, from Anglo-French faillir, from Vulgar Latin *fallire, alteration of Latin fallere to deceive, disappoint;

    [Noun]  | "fail" 


    1: failure —usually used in the phrase without fail

    2: a failure (as by a security dealer) to deliver or receive securities within a prescribed period after purchase or sale

    Origin: 13th century ;

     See: ;

    [Noun]  | "epic fail" 


    1: a notable, obvious, and usually public failure

    Origin: 2007 ;

    [Idiom]  | "if/when all else fails" 


    1: if/when everything else one has attempted has failed

    [Idiom]  | "it never fails" 


    1: it happens every time

    [Idiom]  | "(someone's) courage fails him/her" 


    1: someone loses courage or becomes afraid

    [Adjective]  | "pass-fail" | \ ˈpas-ˈfāl \


    1: being a system of grading whereby the grades "pass" and "fail" replace the traditional letter grades

    Origin: 1930 ;

    [Verb]  | "fails" 


    1: to stop functioning;


      * e.g., " ... my car failed just as I was about to head to work "




    2: to be unsuccessful;


      * e.g., " ... despite all the publicity, the movie failed miserably at the box office "




    3: to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of;


      * e.g., " ... although the minor-league franchise continues to fail local fans, hope springs eternal "




    [Verb]  | "fail" 


    1: to stop functioning;


      * e.g., " ... my car failed just as I was about to head to work "




    2: to be unsuccessful;


      * e.g., " ... despite all the publicity, the movie failed miserably at the box office "




    3: to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of;


      * e.g., " ... although the minor-league franchise continues to fail local fans, hope springs eternal "




    [Verb]  | "fails (at)" 


     [ "Fail at Failing" ]

    1: To fail at failing is to fail so horrbily that you are the king of all things fail. This is not a double-negative, you just suck! It is also consider 386 times more fail than an Epic Fail.

      * e.g.,  ...  Jim: Dude I totaly just crashed my car onto my roof! Gary: Wow man you fail at failing! Gary: Jim got a -72 points on his english test. Rick: Wow he fails at failing! 

     [ "Fail Fail" ]

    1: a fail that fails.

      * e.g.,  ... Dad: Hey son, did you check your Electronic Mail? I sent you one of those hilarious fails! Haha! Son: You just sent me a completely fail-free picture with absolutely no evident presence of even a hint of fail. Fail Fail! 

     [ "Fail" ]

    1: either an interjection used when one disapproves of something, or a verb meaning approximately the same thing as the slang form of suck.

      * e.g.,  ... 1 "you actually bought that? FAIL" 

     [ "failing" ]

    1: my life

      * e.g.,  ... what are you doing honey failing 

     [ "Failness" ]

    1: Somthing that contains or emits fail so you can laugh at it

      * e.g.,  ... " Man have you seen Failness.com, Its soo funny." " Yo have you seen Carlo's new whip, it reaks of Failness" 

     [ "Fail" ]

    1: The Glorious lack of success

      * e.g.,  ... A baseball player swings at a ball and the ball instead hits him in the groin. FAIL! 

     [ "failful" ]

    1: Indiana talk for it was real hard to do.

      * e.g.,  ... Last nights homework was real failful. 

     [ "for the fail" ]

    1: just like ftl, but much cooler and with much more style.

      * e.g.,  ... Player 1: OMFG DUDEE!!11one1@!! A FUCKING BR JUST KILLED ME!!1! A BR!!! 

     [ "Fail-Fail" ]

    1: When someone sees a non fail but believes that it is a fail so that person fails at fail spotting

      * e.g.,  ... Harry thought that being black is a life choice fail. 

     [ "#Fail" ]

    1: Play on the fail that is used when something goes wrong or is bad or not up to standard. The hashtag is common Twitter parlance, so this is predominantly used on Twitter but has broken out into everyday speech.

      * e.g.,  ... Just tripped up and faceplanted the coffee table #fail Well that film was not as good as I thought it would be #fail 

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