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failure
Part of speech: NounThe act of falling short, wasting away, or turning out badly; omission; neglect or nonperformance; want of success; decay, or defect from decay; as, the failure of eyesight; the act of becoming bankrupt; an unsuccessful person, effort, etc.
Usage examples "failure":- And I knew when it done so well on a foreign shore, it wuzn't goin' to make any failure of itself here under its own line, and fish tree, so to speak. - "Samantha at the World's Fair", Marietta Holley.
- All three seemed to be turning over and over in their minds the melancholy balance- sheet of a failure. - "Maria Chapdelaine A Tale of the Lake St. John Country", Louis Hemon.
- Your arrest would mean the failure of the whole thing. - "The Gadfly", E. L. Voynich.