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Failure

noun

An act that fails.

An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose.

Lack of success. "That year there was a crop failure"

A person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently. Synonyms: loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person.

An unexpected omission. "The mechanic's failure to check the brakes"

Inability to discharge all your debts as they come due. Synonym: bankruptcy. "Fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks"

Loss of ability to function normally.

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"Failure" Quotes from Famous Books

... construction is frequently seen in the lack of simplicity of foreplane and background. It must first be determined whether it is to be a landscape with figures or figures in landscape. The half one and half another picture is a sure failure. ...

— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore

... productiveness farther North. Its most prominent faults are—early blooming, in consequence of which it is often caught by the late frosts; the irregular and unequal blooming of its pistillate and staminate blossoms, and the consequent failure of the former to be fertilized and to develop nuts; and lateness in ripening its wood in the Fall and consequent liability to injury ...

— English Walnuts - What You Need to Know about Planting, Cultivating and - Harvesting This Most Delicious of Nuts • Various

... strong men often succumb in the physical struggle for life; but they can nevertheless be victorious through the typical influence they exert, perhaps on very distant generations, if the remembrance of them is kept alive, be it in legendary or in historical form. Their very failure can show that a type has taken form which is maintained at all risks, a standard of life which is adhered to in spite of the strongest opposition. The question "to be or not to be" can be put from very different levels of being: it has too often been considered a consequence of Darwinism that this ...

— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel

... hired servant leaves the service of his employer, without good cause, before he has worked out the time for which he was hired, he cannot recover his wages. And for immoral conduct, willful disobedience, or habitual neglect, he may be dismissed. On the other hand, ill usage, or any failure on the part of the employer to fulfill his engagement, releases the laborer from ...

— The Government Class Book • Andrew W. Young

... As to Marvel, he had exchanged some of his finest acres for the warren of silver sprigs, the common full of thistles, and the marsh full of reeds: he had lost many guineas by his sheep and their jackets, and many more by his ill-fenced plantations: so that counting all the losses from the failure of his schemes and the waste of his time, he was a thousand pounds poorer than when he first came ...

— Tales & Novels, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth

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