How do you spell Failing
Available Definitions:
1) n. - A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing.
2) n. - The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.
3) v. i. - To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
4) v. i. - To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
5) v. i. - To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
6) v. i. - To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
7) v. i. - To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
8) v. i. - To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
9) v. i. - 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.
10) v. t. - To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
11) v. t. - To miss of attaining; to lose.
12) v. i. - Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
13) v. i. - Death; decease.
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