failed
Because it is a word with a single syllable, failed is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions offailed
- To be unsuccessful.
Example: "Throughout my life, I have always failed."
- Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
Example: "The truck failed to start."
- To neglect.
Example: "The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors."
- Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
Example: "After running five minutes, the engine failed."
- To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
- To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
Example: "I failed English last year."
- To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
Example: "The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments."
- To miss attaining; to lose.
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
Example: "The crops failed last year."
- To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
- To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
- To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
Example: "A sick man fails."
- To perish; to die; used of a person.
- To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
- 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.
- Unsuccessful
- Decayed; worn out.
- Bankrupt.
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