Meaning

1 senses

  1. (informal)To be forced to leave a school or university because of unsatisfactory grades.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. He will never fail to carry out the project.

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  2. Robert failed to come out.

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  3. To our great disappointment we failed to carry out intention.

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  4. The first respondent failed to fill out the entire questionnaire.

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Forms

fails out, failing out, failed out, failed out
Base formfail out · to fail out
3rd person singularfails out
Present participlefailing out
Past simplefailed out
Past participlefailed out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfail out
he, she, itfails out

Past simpleLesson

all personsfailed out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave failed out
he, she, ithas failed out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fail out

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
faggotfailA2failingfailureB1faintB1
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