Fails is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FAILS in dictionary:

VERB:
• FAIL, to be unsuccessful in an attempt
• be unsuccessful in (an examination or interview)
• (of a person or a commodity) be unable to meet the standards set by (a test of quality or eligibility)
• judge (a candidate in an examination or test) not to have passed
• neglect to do something
• behave in a way contrary to expectations by not doing something
• used to express a strong belief that something must be the case
• used to indicate that something invariably happens
• desert or let down (someone)
• cease to work properly; break down
• become weaker or of poorer quality
• (of rain or a crop or supply) be insufficient when needed or expected
• (of a business or a person) cease trading because of lack of funds
• be unsuccessful in achieving one's goal
NOUN:
• a mark which is not high enough to pass an examination or test
• a mistake, failure, or instance of poor performance

Words related to FAILS

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How to use FAILS in a sentence

• Why, we’ve lately seen old England, who boasts her stock ne’er fails, Has had to send for wholsome meat preserved in New South Wales.
• One can live in this way for a little while, until health fails, or the merchant says that the work has come to an end.
• I have made it up carefully that the first time that letter fails on the first of the month I shall have Journel arrested as a thief.
• You know me very well also in thinking that my heart fails me as the time of my going to Gloucester approaches.
• A brave though fallen enemy, seldom fails to admire a heroic, chivalrous and discreet victor.
• If the commission report fails to bring satisfactory action, the matter may be taken to a permanent court of international justice for final decision.
• When one submits to this ordinance in the right spirit, and it is properly administered, it never fails of being followed by this happy experience.
• Space fails me to follow out his interesting arguments.
• Our work for Christ that fails in what we intended may yet leave a blessing in some other way.
• Hence it frequently happens at Parliamentary elections that a candidate whose meetings are enthusiastic and well attended fails lamentably at the poll.
• But even this conception is not sufficiently definite, inasmuch as it fails to do complete justice to the special peculiarity of the subject.
• The fruit they bear Falls not, nor ever fails in winter time Nor summer, but is yielded all the year.
• He does not enjoy the marked respect and popularity of which he never fails to receive hearty evidences when he appears in public, because of his success alone.
• He is outside at the moment, showing our skipper the lay of the land before the light fails, so I am free to speak plainly.
• If, deeming the measure necessary and expedient, the President fails to recommend it, the fault is his, clearly, distinctly, and exclusively his.
• The thought is sometimes so subtle as to elude the careless reader, but the charm of the melody never fails to entrance.
• On the contrary, literature fails in art precisely in proportion as it becomes expressly such a teacher.
• The present plan surely fails to produce a satisfactory crop of such ideal citizens.
• Where life, with all its extravagances, fails, is in its refusal to provide the apt and timely coincidence that shall solve the problem of the hero.
• Elton, whose judgment never fails her, saw farther than I did.
• He shouts to the driver to slacken the pace, but evidently the fellow fails to hear.
• There is no complaint that the capitalist fails to secure his share.
• Such a man excels in general principles, but fails in the particular application.
• This may be accounted for by the fact that the review recitation often fails to do more than repeat old material.

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