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Failing

//ˈfeɪ.lɪŋ// name, noun, prep, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    below acceptable in performance wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    weakness; defect

    "His worst failing is his temper."

  2. 2
    failure to reach a minimum required performance wordnet
  3. 3
    a flaw or weak point wordnet
Preposition
  1. 1
    If what follows is not possible; without.

    "A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of fail form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist."

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