American English pronunciation
How to pronounce failures
IPA transcription: ['feɪljɚz]
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Noun
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an act that fails
“his failure to pass the test”
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an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose
“the surprise party was a complete failure”
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lack of success
“he felt that his entire life had been a failure”
“that year there was a crop failure”
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a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
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an unexpected omission
“he resented my failure to return his call”
“the mechanic's failure to check the brakes”
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inability to discharge all your debts as they come due
“the company had to declare bankruptcy”
“fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks”
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loss of ability to function normally
“kidney failure”
Usage examples
- After these failures, Clotilde appeared to dedicate herself to a saintly life.
- No adhesion failures have been reported since the switchover, even in heavy rain.
- Sun recommend that failures should be reported as program bugs.
- He accepts his failures with philosophy.
- We cannot blame algorithms for failures.
- These literary and social failures caused More's withdrawal from London's intellectual circles.
- Large-scale campaigns to capture Dublin and Sligo were both failures.
- Search for the video game The Book of Heroic Failures
- It is not a body that is immune to failures.
- Catastrophic failures often lead to cascading systems failure.