Fail
Russian Meaning
терпеть неудачу
подкашиваться
не иметь успеха
не сбываться
не удаваться
не исполнить
не сделать
обманывать ожидания
изменять
не хватать
недоставать
иметь недостаток
слабеть
ослабевать
подгибаться
покидать
перестать действовать
выходить из строя
отказывать
оказываться не в состоянии
не выполняться
быть ложным
провалить на экзаменах
провалиться на экзамене
обанкротиться
погореть
терять силы
провал
неудача
облом
неудача на экзамене
English Meaning
- To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately: failed to fulfill their promises; failed in their attempt to reach the summit.
- To be unsuccessful: an experiment that failed.
- To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum.
- To prove insufficient in quantity or duration; give out: The water supply failed during the drought.
- To decline, as in strength or effectiveness: The light began to fail.
- To cease functioning properly: The engine failed.
- To give way or be made otherwise useless as a result of excessive strain: The rusted girders failed and caused the bridge to collapse.
- To become bankrupt or insolvent: Their business failed during the last recession.
- To disappoint or prove undependable to: Our sentries failed us.
- To abandon; forsake: His strength failed him.
- To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example): "We must . . . hold . . . those horrors up to the light of justice. Otherwise we would fail our inescapable obligation to the victims of Nazism: to remember” ( Anthony Lewis).
- To leave undone; neglect: failed to wash the dishes.
- To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum in (a course, for example): failed algebra twice.
- To give such a grade of failure to (a student): failed me in algebra.
- Failure to deliver securities to a purchaser within a specified time.
- Failure to receive the proceeds of a transaction, as in the sale of stock or securities, by a specified date.
- without fail With no chance of failure: Be here at noon without fail.