[{"word":"fails","phonetic":"/feɪlz/","phonetics":[{"text":"/feɪlz/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"Poor quality; substandard workmanship.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The project was full of fail."},{"definition":"A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A failure (something incapable of success)","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A failing grade in an academic examination.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To be unsuccessful.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Throughout my life, I have always failed."},{"definition":"Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The truck failed to start."},{"definition":"To neglect.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors."},{"definition":"Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"After running five minutes, the engine failed."},{"definition":"To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"I failed English last year."},{"definition":"To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments."},{"definition":"To miss attaining; to lose.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The crops failed last year."},{"definition":"To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"A sick man fails."},{"definition":"To perish; to die; used of a person.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To err in judgment; to be mistaken.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["fall on one's face","flunk"],"antonyms":["succeed"]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"A piece of turf cut from grassland.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fail","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fails"]}]