FAIL vs BREAK: NOUN
- Death; decease.
- Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
- A woman's upper garment. Halliwell. See faille.
- A piece cut off from the rest of the sward; a turf; a sod.
- A failure, failing, or fault.
- Failure; deficiency: now only in the phrase without fail (which see, below).
- Lack; absence or cessation.
- A failing grade.
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- A pause from doing something (as work)
- Breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- Some abrupt occurrence that interrupts
- The act of breaking something
- Any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- The occurrence of breaking
- An unexpected piece of good luck
- The opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- A sudden dash
- An escape from jail
FAIL vs BREAK: VERB
- Disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- Get worse
- Prove insufficient
- Stop operating or functioning
- Be unable
- Fail to do something; leave something undone
- Be unsuccessful
- Judge unacceptable
- Fail to get a passing grade
- Fall short in what is expected
- Become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- Stop operating or functioning
- Act in disregard of laws and rules
- Break down, literally or metaphorically
- Lessen in force or effect
- Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- Do a break dance
- Cease an action temporarily
- Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- Reduce to bankruptcy
- Make submissive, obedient, or useful
- Fracture a bone of
- Surpass in excellence
- Terminate
- Enter someone's property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- Make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- Scatter or part
- Emerge from the surface of a body of water
- Curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- Be broken in
- Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- Exchange for smaller units of money
- Destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- Make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- Separate from a clinch, in boxing
- Fall sharply
- Ruin completely
- Go to pieces
- Break a piece from a whole
- Become punctured or penetrated
- Pierce or penetrate
- Diminish or discontinue abruptly
- Be released or become known; of news
- Interrupt the flow of current in
- Undergo breaking
- Find a flaw in
- Find the solution or key to
- Come into being
- Change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- Prevent completion
- Weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- Happen
- Destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- Become separated into pieces or fragments
- Come to an end
- Vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- Cause to give up a habit
- Give up
- Come forth or begin from a state of latency
- Happen or take place
- Cause the failure or ruin of
- Interrupt a continued activity
- Render inoperable or ineffective
- Of the male voice in puberty
- Invalidate by judicial action
- Change directions suddenly
- Move away or escape suddenly
FAIL vs BREAK: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
- To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
- 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.
- To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
- To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
- To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
- To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
- 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
- To be detected by (a drug test) as having used a banned substance.
- To give such a grade of failure to (a student).
- To leave undone; neglect.
- To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example).
- To abandon; forsake.
- To disappoint or prove undependable to.
- To become bankrupt or insolvent.
- To give way or be made otherwise useless as a result of excessive strain.
- To cease functioning properly.
- To decline, as in strength or effectiveness.
- To prove insufficient in quantity or duration; give out.
- To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum.
- To be unsuccessful in being acted upon.
- To be unsuccessful.
- To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately.
- To filter in or penetrate.
- To intrude.
- To burst.
- To give way; collapse.
- To become unusable or inoperative.
- To become fractured.
- To become cracked or split.
- To train to obey; tame.
- To cause to give up a habit.
- To give up (a habit).
- To cause (a will) to be invalidated because of inconsistency with state inheritance laws or as a result of other legal insufficiency.
- To fail to conform to; violate.
- To fail to fulfill; cancel.
- To cause to be without money or to go into bankruptcy.
- To reduce in rank; demote.
- To cause the ruin or failure of (an enterprise, for example).
- To weaken or destroy, as in spirit or health; overwhelm with adversity.
- To render useless or inoperative.
- To lessen the force or effect of.
- To win a game on (an opponent's service), as in tennis.
- To overcome or put an end to, especially by force or strong opposition.
- To surpass or outdo.
- To make known, as news.
- To find the solution or key to; uncover the basic elements and arrangement of.
- To find an opening or flaw in.
- To make or bring about by cutting or forcing.
- To force one's way out of; escape from.
- To produce (a sweat) copiously on the skin, as from exercise.
- To part or pierce the surface of.
- To force or make a way through; puncture or penetrate.
- To open (a shotgun or similar firearm) at the breech, as for loading or cleaning.
- To render (a circuit) inoperative by disruption; open.
- To vary or disrupt the uniformity or continuity of.
- To exchange for smaller monetary units.
- To destroy the completeness of (a group of related items).
- To crack without separating into pieces.
- To experience a fracture in (a bone, for example).
- To cause to undergo a fracture of (a bone, for example).
- To snap off or detach.
- To separate into components or parts.
- To divide into pieces, as by bending or cutting.
- To cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently; smash.
FAIL vs BREAK: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To miss of attaining; to lose.
- To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
- N/A
FAIL vs BREAK: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Fail financially and close
- Become bankrupt or insolvent
- Abandon, forsake
- Disappoint, prove undependable to
- Leave something undone
- Fail to do something
- Deteriorate
- To deceive; delude; mislead.
- To come short of; miss; lack.
- To omit; leave unbestowed or unperformed; neglect to keep or observe: as, to fail an appointment.
- To be wanting to; disappoint; desert; leave in the lurch.
- To break, suspend payment.
- To come to naught, prove abortive.
- To wane, fade, weaken.
- =Syn, 1. To fall short, come short, give out.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements, especially one's debts or business obligations; become insolvent or bankrupt.
- To come short or be wanting in action, detail, or result; disappoint or prove lacking in what is attempted, expected, desired, or approved: often followed by an infinitive or by of or in: as, he failed to come; the experiment failed of success; he fails in duty; the portrait fails in expression.
- To decline; sink; grow faint; become weaker.
- To be or become deficient or lacking, as something expected or desired; fall short, cease, disappear, or be wanting, either wholly or partially; be insufficient or absent: as, the stream fails in summer; our supplies failed.
- (idiom) (without fail) With no chance of failure.
- Crack
- Break or crack on the surface only
- Become fractured
- Of news
- Be released or become known
- Reduce in rank
- Assign to a lower position
- Go different ways
- As of rules or patterns
- Be in violation of
- Fail to agree with
- Usually by force
- Destroy the integrity of
- Crack; of the male voice in puberty
- An abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- Terminate or end
FAIL vs BREAK: RELATED WORDS
- Give way, Conk out, Give out, Flush it, Run out, Break down, Go wrong, Bomb, Break, Miscarry, Go, Betray, Neglect, Die, Flunk
- Bump, Breach, Soften, Intermission, Stop, Go, Dampen, Split, Ruin, Weaken, Respite, Interrupt, Recess, Burst, Crack
FAIL vs BREAK: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Falter, Refuse, Failure, Give way, Give out, Conk out, Break down, Go wrong, Bomb, Break, Miscarry, Betray, Neglect, Die, Flunk
- Bust, Pause, Bump, Breach, Soften, Intermission, Stop, Dampen, Split, Ruin, Weaken, Respite, Interrupt, Burst, Crack
FAIL vs BREAK: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- The best business advice ever given is attributed to Benjamin Franklin: If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.
- Those who fail to arrive on time or fail to attend will forfeit the class fee and will not receive CE credit.
- If I fail this exam I fail the course.
- Fail Big, Expanded Edition: Fail Your Way to Success and Break All the Rules to Get.
- Does that mean HGST will never fail, and WD will always fail?
- And even if I fail, I will stay committed to fail forward.
- The reason most resumes fail is that they fail to list the right skills.
- The ppl who fail with certo are fuckin retards who deserve to fail.
- Software does not fail, but hardware and firmware can fail.
- Employers who fail to comply, or fail to comply on time, or fail to properly document their compliance, will face stiff financial penalties.
- To break the formula into lines; place the cursor in the location where you want to break it.
- Fortunately, Excel has the Page Break Preview feature, which lets you view how the pages in a spreadsheet will break before you print it.
- Spring Break shall be applicable for all children when one or more is of school age and receives a Spring Break from school.
- When you delete a section break, Word combines the text before and after the break into one section.
- Although the Vacation budget has been reduced, there is still money you can set aside to make plans for spring break or winter break.
- Double click on the page break to select that page break.
- Does taking a coffee break affect my ability to take a lunch break?
- Thursday night, loitering around at your dorm study break, or taking that extra trip out to Brain Break.
- They get too comfortable, break the house, break my things.
- The ROW break becomes the innermost break regardless of where you specify it in the BREAK command.
FAIL vs BREAK: QUESTIONS
- Why do democracies fail to protect minority rights?
- Why did Gradle'keddreaderproject'project REFRESH fail?
- Why do subsequent operations fail with wsaeconnreset?
- Why does mqrc_handle_not_available fail with reason mqopen?
- Did the Apostles' warnings against syncretism fail?
- Why do software development outsourcing projects fail?
- Why does mqgmo_properties_force_mqrfh2 fail with mqrc_MD_error?
- What is the meaning of the song Senses Fail by Senses Fail?
- What are some examples of companies that fail fast and fail often?
- What does fail fail closed mean on an air compressor?
- How do enzymes break down carbon in photosynthesis?
- Is Daytona Beach family friendly during spring break?
- Does health insurance cover lunch and break activities?
- Which regions will the Russian Federation break up?
- How to break Windows password using command prompt?
- Why do activated complex break apart into reactants?
- Are car modifications that break regulations illegal?
- Does Bulletproof Coffee Break Your intermittent fast?
- How does dehumanization break down moral inhibitions?
- Can a break in a contract of employment break continuity?