failing 音标拼音: [f'elɪŋ]
n . 失败,不及格,缺点,弱点,短处
prep . 如果没有…,如果…失败
失败,不及格,缺点,弱点,短处如果没有…,如果…失败
failing adj 1 :
below acceptable in performance ; "
received failing grades "
n 1 :
a flaw or weak point ; "
he was quick to point out his wife '
s failings " [
synonym : {
failing }, {
weakness }]
2 :
failure to reach a minimum required performance ; "
his failing the course led to his disqualification "; "
he got two flunks on his report " [
synonym : {
failing }, {
flunk }] [
ant : {
pass },
{
passing }, {
qualifying }]
Fail \
Fail \,
n . [
OF .
faille ,
from failir .
See {
Fail },
v .
i .]
1 .
Miscarriage ;
failure ;
deficiency ;
fault ; --
mostly superseded by {
failure }
or {
failing },
except in the phrase without fail . "
His highness '
fail of issue ." --
Shak .
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2 .
Death ;
decease . [
Obs .] --
Shak .
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Failing \
Fail "
ing \,
n .
1 .
A failing short ;
a becoming deficient ;
failure ;
deficiency ;
imperfection ;
weakness ;
lapse ;
fault ;
infirmity ;
as ,
a mental failing .
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And ever in her mind she cast about For that unnoticed failing in herself . --
Tennyson .
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2 .
The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt .
Syn :
See {
Fault }.
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Fail \
Fail \ (
f [=
a ]
l )
v .
i . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Failed } (
f [=
a ]
ld );
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Failing }.] [
F .
failir ,
fr .
L .
fallere ,
falsum ,
to deceive ,
akin to E .
fall .
See {
Fail },
and cf . {
Fallacy },
{
False }, {
Fault }.]
1 .
To be wanting ;
to fall short ;
to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence ;
to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner ,
or to be altogether cut off from supply ;
to be lacking ;
as ,
streams fail ;
crops fail .
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As the waters fail from the sea . --
Job xiv .
11 .
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Till Lionel '
s issue fails ,
his should not reign .
--
Shak .
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2 .
To be affected with want ;
to come short ;
to lack ;
to be deficient or unprovided ; --
used with of .
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If ever they fail of beauty ,
this failure is not be attributed to their size . --
Berke .
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3 .
To fall away ;
to become diminished ;
to decline ;
to decay ;
to sink .
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When earnestly they seek Such proof ,
conclude they then begin to fail .
--
Milton .
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4 .
To deteriorate in respect to vigor ,
activity ,
resources ,
etc .;
to become weaker ;
as ,
a sick man fails .
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5 .
To perish ;
to die ; --
used of a person . [
Obs .]
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Had the king in his last sickness failed . --
Shak .
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6 .
To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed ,
a result to be secured ,
etc .;
to miss ;
not to fulfill expectation .
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Take heed now that ye fail not to do this . --
Ezra iv .
22 .
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Either my eyesight fails ,
or thou look '
st pale .
--
Shak .
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7 .
To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ;
to be baffled or frusrated .
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Our envious foe hath failed . --
Milton .
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8 .
To err in judgment ;
to be mistaken .
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Which ofttimes may succeed ,
so as perhaps Shall grieve him ,
if I fail not . --
Milton .
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9 .
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 ;
as ,
many credit unions failed in the late 1980 '
s .
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202 Moby Thesaurus words for "
failing ":
abortive ,
arrested ,
bad habit ,
besetting sin ,
blemish ,
blind spot ,
bootless ,
bug ,
cachectic ,
callow ,
catch ,
comedown ,
coming apart ,
crack ,
cracking ,
crumbling ,
debasement ,
debilitated ,
decadence ,
decadency ,
decadent ,
declension ,
declination ,
decline ,
declining ,
defect ,
defection ,
defective ,
deficiency ,
deficient ,
deformation ,
degeneracy ,
degenerate ,
degenerateness ,
degeneration ,
degradation ,
demotion ,
depravation ,
depravedness ,
depreciation ,
derogation ,
descent ,
deteriorating ,
deterioration ,
devolution ,
disintegrating ,
downtrend ,
downturn ,
downward mobility ,
downward trend ,
drained ,
draining ,
drawback ,
drooping ,
drop ,
dwindling ,
dying ,
ebb ,
ebbing ,
effete ,
effeteness ,
embryonic ,
enervated ,
exhausted ,
fading ,
failed ,
failure ,
failure of nerve ,
fall ,
falling ,
falling -
off ,
fault ,
faute ,
feeble ,
flagging ,
flaw ,
foible ,
found wanting ,
fragmenting ,
frail ,
frailty ,
fruitless ,
futile ,
going to pieces ,
healthless ,
hole ,
hypoplastic ,
immature ,
imperfect ,
imperfection ,
in arrear ,
in arrears ,
in default ,
in default of ,
in poor health ,
in short supply ,
inadequacy ,
inadequate ,
incompetent ,
incomplete ,
ineffective ,
ineffectual ,
inefficacious ,
infant ,
infirm ,
infirmity ,
insufficient ,
invalid ,
involution ,
kink ,
lacking ,
lame ,
languishing ,
lapse ,
little problem ,
loss of tone ,
manque ,
marcescent ,
miscarried ,
miscarrying ,
missing ,
moral flaw ,
moribund ,
needing ,
not enough ,
of no effect ,
pale ,
part ,
partial ,
patchy ,
peaked ,
peaky ,
pining ,
problem ,
reduced ,
reduced in health ,
regression ,
regressive ,
retrocession ,
retrogradation ,
retrograde ,
retrogression ,
retrogressive ,
rift ,
run -
down ,
sans ,
scant ,
scanty ,
scarce ,
scrappy ,
short ,
shortcoming ,
shriveling ,
shy ,
sickly ,
sinking ,
sketchy ,
sliding ,
slippage ,
slipping ,
slump ,
slumping ,
snag ,
something missing ,
stickit ,
stillborn ,
subsiding ,
successless ,
tabetic ,
taint ,
too little ,
underdeveloped ,
undeveloped ,
unequal to ,
unfortunate ,
unhealthy ,
unqualified ,
unsatisfactory ,
unsatisfying ,
unsound ,
unsuccessful ,
unsufficing ,
useless ,
valetudinarian ,
valetudinary ,
vice ,
vulnerable place ,
wane ,
waning ,
wanting ,
wasting ,
weak link ,
weak point ,
weak side ,
weakened ,
weakly ,
weakness ,
wilting ,
with low resistance ,
withering ,
without ,
worsening
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