A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).

A failing grade in an academic examination.

(slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).

(uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.

A piece of turf cut from grassland.

(intransitive) To be unsuccessful.

(transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

(transitive) To neglect.

(intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.

(transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.

(transitive, intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.

(transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.

(transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.

(archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.

(archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

(archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.

(obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.

(obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

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.

(slang, US) Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.