fail

• break
• break down
• close
• collapse
• crash
• decline
• die
• disappoint
• drop
• end
• fade
• fall
• finish
• flop
• flunk
• fold
• forget
• go
• ignore
• miss
• neglect
• sag
• struggle
• weaken

• ascend
• bear
• begin
• click
• commence
• content
• continue
• create
• deliver
• do
• fulfil
• fulfill
• go
• go over
• go up
• gratify
• keep
• mind
• observe
• perform
• rally
• recover
• recuperate
• remember
• rise
• satisfy
• start
• succeed
• work out

• noun
  1. Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
  2. A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
  3. A failure (something incapable of success).
  4. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
  5. A failing grade in an academic examination.
  6. A piece of turf cut from grassland.
• verb
  1. To be unsuccessful.
  2. Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.).
  3. To neglect.
  4. Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
  5. To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
  6. To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
  7. To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
  8. To miss attaining; to lose.
  9. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
  10. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
  11. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
  12. To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
  13. To perish; to die; used of a person.
  14. To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
  15. 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.
• adjective
  1. That is a failure.

• Despite his best efforts, he couldn't help but fail the math exam.
• It's okay to fail sometimes, it's how we learn and grow from our mistakes.
• The bridge's support structure was insufficient, causing it to fail under the weight of the heavy trucks.
• The company implemented new strategies to ensure its products would not fail in meeting customers' expectations.
• The student feared that she would fail to meet the deadline for her research paper, but with perseverance, she managed to complete it on time.

abortion

• abandonment
• abolition
• cancelation
• cancellation
• failure
• miscarriage
• repeal

abortions

• abandonments
• cancelations
• cancellations
• failure
• miscarriage
• repeals

abortive

• failed
• fruitless
• futile
• unsuccessful

backfire

• bonfire
• campfire
• collapse
• fail
• flop
• forest fire
• wildfire

backfired

• boomeranged
• collapsed
• fail
• flop
• flopped

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