fail
verb [I or T] (EXAM) /feɪl/Definition
A2 to be unsuccessful, or to judge that someone has been unsuccessful in a test or exam: I passed in history but failed in chemistry. A lot of people fail their driving test the first time. The examiners failed him because he hadn't answered enough questions.Exams, tests and exercisesFailing and doing badly
(Definition of fail verb (EXAM) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Abstaining and refraining
- Acting and acts
- Avoiding action
- Becoming better
- Cancelling and interrupting
- Competing and contending (non-sporting)
- Coping and not coping
- Delaying and wasting time
- Describing the leading position
- Efficient and effective
- Expressions telling people to hurry up
- Failures
- Getting involved for one's own benefit or against others' will
- Hesitating
- Higher and lower points of achievement
- Hurrying and doing things quickly
- Making progress and advancing
- Making things better
- Performing a function
- Potential
- Reacting and responding
- Repeating an action
- Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- Success and achievements
- Successful (things or people)
- Surpassing in quality or number
- Taking part and getting involved
- Trying and making an effort
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- Waiting
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Synonyms and related words:
- backfire verb (BAD RESULT)
- be running on empty idiom
- beta male noun
- blow it idiom
- bodge noun, verb
- boomerang verb
- botch verb
- come to sth phrasal verb (REACH)
- flog a dead horse idiom
- flop verb (FAIL)
- fluff verb
- flunk out phrasal verb
- fray around/at the edges idiom
- fumble verb (SPORT)
- misfire verb (PLAN)
- miss verb (NOT HIT)
- muff verb
- neglect verb
- not last long idiom
- overreach verb
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