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  • fail :fail to do something; leave something undone
    • She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib
    • The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account

  • fail :be unsuccessful
    • Where do today's public schools fail?
    • The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably

  • fail :disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
    • His sense of smell failed him this time
    • His strength finally failed him
    • His children failed him in the crisis

  • fail :stop operating or functioning
    • The engine finally went
    • The car died on the road
    • The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
    • The coffee maker broke
    • The engine failed on the way to town
    • her eyesight went after the accident

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