Failure: alternatives and connections

The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriag…

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of Backslide

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A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

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The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.

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The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.

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A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

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A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the govern…

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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.

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A sudden fall; a body of things falling.

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A wandering; a roving or irregular course.

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of Fail

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To make a hissing sound.

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To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

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To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.

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Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and busines…

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A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to…

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of Lapse

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of Lick

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The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.

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Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.

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Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.

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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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Nothing.

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Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worsh…

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Neglect or failure to pay.

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In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation wh…

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To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.

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of Relapse

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The act of returning, or coming back; return.

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of Revert

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.

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The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, espec…

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That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

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Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

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A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence…

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The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determinin…

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of Happen

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The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fa…

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That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

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That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such…

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A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.

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That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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A basket. See Skep.

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Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortu…

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To set up; to put upright.

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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 expect…

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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 expect…

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The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.

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One who loses.

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Act of succeeding; succession.

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Act of succeeding; succession.

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