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To break down or cease to work properly.
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Classifications
Cognitive
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Responsibility
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- betraybreakflunkmiscarryneglectrun outslip
- pasttense
- failed
- presentparticiple
- failing
- thirdpersonsingular
- fails
- pastparticiple
- failed
Framework definitions
- §1
- To break down or cease to work properly.
- §1
- get worse
- §2
- stop operating or functioning
- §3
- prove insufficient
- §4
- disappoint, prove undependable to
- §5
- become bankrupt or insolvent
- §6
- fall short in what is expected
- §7
- fail to get a passing grade
- §8
- judge unacceptable
- §9
- be unsuccessful
- §10
- fail to do something
- §11
- be unable
- §1 · legacy_primary
- To break down or cease to work properly.DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column
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