失敗 — meaning in English

English meaning

• fail verb To be unsuccessful in achieving something.
• failure noun The state of not achieving a desired or intended result.
• faultful adj With faults or sins; not perfect; flawed.
• faultless adj Without fault; free from defect or error.
• flunk verb To fail a class, test, or course.
• miscarriage noun The loss of a pregnancy before the baby can survive outside the womb.

Senses

失敗 is used for these senses in English:

• fail (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
• failure State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
• faultful With faults or sins; not perfect; flawed.
• faultless Without fault; free from defect or error.
• flunk (ambitransitive) Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.
• miscarriage (medicine) The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. [from 17th c.]

fail — full definition

1. verb To be unsuccessful in achieving something.
2. verb To stop working correctly, as of a machine or system.
3. verb To let someone down by not meeting their expectations or needs.
4. noun Informal: an instance of failure or something that turns out badly.

failure — full definition

1. noun The state of not achieving a desired or intended result.
2. noun Not doing something that should have been done.
3. noun The point at which an organ or system stops working properly.
4. noun Someone or something considered unsuccessful.

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