Fail and Wrong

• (v.i.) To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
• (v.i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired; to be baffled or frusrated.
• (v.t.) To be wanting to; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
• (v.t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.
• (v.i.) 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; as, streams fail; crops fail.
• (v.i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
• (v.i.) 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.
• (v.i.) To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
• (v.i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
• (v.i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
• (v.i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
• (v.i.) Death; decease.
• (v.i.) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.

verb

• Fail to do something; leave something undone.
  • usage: "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"
  • synonyms: neglect
• Be unsuccessful.
  • usage: "Where do today's public schools fail"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"
  • synonyms: go wrong, miscarry
• Disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake.
  • usage: "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"
  • synonyms: betray
• Stop operating or functioning.
  • usage: "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
  • synonyms: go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
• Be unable.
  • usage: "I fail to understand your motives"
• Judge unacceptable.
  • usage: "The teacher failed six students"
• Fail to get a passing grade.
  • usage: "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test"
  • synonyms: flunk, bomb, flush it
• Fall short in what is expected.
  • usage: "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"
• Become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close.
  • usage: "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"
• Prove insufficient.
  • usage: "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"
  • synonyms: run out, give out
• Get worse.
  • usage: "Her health is declining"

Fail is a deal is said to fail if on the settlement date either the seller does not deliver securities in proper form or the buyer does not to deliver funds in proper form.

noun

• That which is contrary to the principles of justice or law.
  • usage: "he feels that you are in the wrong"
  • synonyms: wrongfulness
• Any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right.
  • synonyms: legal injury, damage

verb

• Treat unjustly; do wrong to.

adjective

• Not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth.
  • usage: "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"
  • synonyms: incorrect
• Contrary to conscience or morality or law.
  • usage: "it is wrong for the rich to take advantage of the poor"; "cheating is wrong"; "it is wrong to lie"
• Not appropriate for a purpose or occasion.
  • usage: "said all the wrong things"
  • synonyms: improper
• Not functioning properly.
  • usage: "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
  • synonyms: amiss, awry, haywire
• Based on or acting or judging in error.
  • usage: "it is wrong to think that way"
• Not in accord with established usage or procedure.
  • usage: "the wrong medicine"; "the wrong way to shuck clams"; "it is incorrect for a policeman to accept gifts"
  • synonyms: incorrect
• Used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward.
  • usage: "socks worn wrong side out"
• Badly timed.
  • usage: "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke"
  • synonyms: ill-timed, unseasonable, untimely
• Characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules.
  • usage: "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road"
  • synonyms: faulty, incorrect

adverb

• In an inaccurate manner.
  • usage: "he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly"; "she guessed wrong"
  • synonyms: incorrectly, wrongly

• (a.) Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the wrong way.
• (a.) Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
• (a.) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right.
• (adv.) In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly.
• (a.) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong.
• (a.) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right.
• (v.t.) To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.
• (v.t.) To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.
• (a.) That which is not right.
• (a.) Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires.
• (a.) Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.
• imp. of Wring. Wrung.
• (a.) Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose.