Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having undergone failure: new economic policies intended to replace the failed ones of a past administration.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of fail.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. unsuccessful. Opposite of
successful .
Examples
“But Germany, let us help Lamprecht to say, since he does not himself draw this conclusion, has failed to emerge upon the level of an exalted ecstasy, failed to produce the philosophical, the moral and religious fruit of its new impulses, _failed, in a word, to find its dominant on a high level_, precisely as often the promising individual fails and has expressed his truly great nature in low forms of activity.”
The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History
“SYNOPSIS use Geo:: Coder:: Bing:: Bulk; my $bulk = Geo:: Coder:: Bing:: Bulk-new (key = 'Your Bing Maps key'); my $id = $bulk-upload (\@locations); sleep 30 while $bulk-is_pending; my $data = $bulk-download; my $failed = $bulk-failed;”
“Think tanks have flirted with the term "failed state.”
The Wall Street Journal: Amid Murders, Mexico Quietly Thrives
“In contrast to last year when the title was consistently in the top 20 on Amazon.com throughout the holiday season at full price, this year the title failed to crack the top 100 until the recent price cut.”
The Wall Street Journal: THQ Warns of Poor uDraw Tablet Sales
“The label failed to keep up with changing tastes, amassed debt and slid into crisis — well before the global financial crisis.”
The Wall Street Journal: Everyday Escada? Life After '80s Power Dressing
“The word failed to make it to the people as the squall stalled over the city just past midnight.”
“Here, then, is ample proof that a copy of this book was known to Hervas in 1785, and the only information which his loose transcription of the title failed to give was that the volume was "corrected by members of the orders," that it was printed with license, and that it was printed at San Gabriel.”
Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.
“Los Angeles - Dr. Dr. sued the new iteration of Death Row Records on Thursday claiming the label failed to pay royalties and released a new version of his iconic album”
“LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dr. Dr. sued the new iteration of Death Row Records on Thursday claiming the label failed to pay royalties and released a new version of his iconic album”
“LOS ANGELES - Dr. Dr. sued the new iteration of Death Row Records on Thursday claiming the label failed to pay royalties and released a new version of his iconic album "The Chronic" without his permission.”
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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The Way The Light Dissappears
went out, failed, shut off, snuffed, faded, blew a fuse, knocked out, puffed out, winked out, closes, blackhole, extinguished and 2 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Poetrie: The Poems I Have Not Written
by John Brehm
I’m so wildly unprolific, the poems
I have not written would reach
from here to the California coast
if you laid them end to end.
And if ...describe, imagine, failed, sweep, divert, reproof, lingering, flutelike, interrogation, stately, intersecting, slick and 23 more...
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