[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fail \fail\, n. of. faille, from failir. see fail, v. i.
   1. miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly
      superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase
      without fail. "his highness' fail of issue." --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. death; decease. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
fail failure failing 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

failing \fail"ing\, n.
   1. a failing short; a becoming deficient; failure;
      deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault;
      infirmity; as, a mental failing.
      1913 webster

            and ever in her mind she cast about
            for that unnoticed failing in herself. --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   2. the act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.

   syn: see fault.
        1913 webster
see also:
fault 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fail \fail\ f=al v. i. imp.  p. p. failed f=ald; p.
   pr.  vb. n. failing. f. failir, fr. l. fallere, falsum,
   to deceive, akin to e. fall. see fail, and cf. fallacy,
   false, fault.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

            as the waters fail from the sea.      --job xiv. 11.
      1913 webster

            till lionel's issue fails, his should not reign.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be
      deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
      1913 webster

            if ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be
            attributed to their size.             --berke.
      1913 webster

   3. to fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay;
      to sink.
      1913 webster

            when earnestly they seek
            such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. to deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources,
      etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
      1913 webster

   5. to perish; to die; -- used of a person. obs.
      1913 webster

            had the king in his last sickness failed. --shak.
      1913 webster

   6. 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.
      1913 webster

            take heed now that ye fail not to do this. --ezra
                                                  iv. 22.
      1913 webster

            either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   7. to come short of a result or object aimed at or desired;
      to be baffled or frusrated.
      1913 webster

            our envious foe hath failed.          --milton.
      1913 webster

   8. to err in judgment; to be mistaken.
      1913 webster

            which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps
            shall grieve him, if i fail not.      --milton.
      1913 webster

   9. 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; as, many
      credit unions failed in the late 1980's.
      1913 webster
see also:
failed failing fail fallacy false fault 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

failing
     adj 1: unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business
            venture" syn: failed
     2: below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades"
     n 1: a flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's
          failings" syn: weakness
     2: failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his
        failing the course led to his disqualification" ant: passing
see also:
failed weakness passing 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

202 moby thesaurus words for "failing":
   abortive, arrested, bad habit, besetting sin, blemish, blind spot,
   bootless, bug, cachectic, callow, catch, comedown, coming apart,
   crack, cracking, crumbling, debasement, debilitated, decadence,
   decadency, decadent, declension, declination, decline, declining,
   defect, defection, defective, deficiency, deficient, deformation,
   degeneracy, degenerate, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation,
   demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, derogation,
   descent, deteriorating, deterioration, devolution, disintegrating,
   downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drained,
   draining, drawback, drooping, drop, dwindling, dying, ebb, ebbing,
   effete, effeteness, embryonic, enervated, exhausted, fading,
   failed, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling, falling-off,
   fault, faute, feeble, flagging, flaw, foible, found wanting,
   fragmenting, frail, frailty, fruitless, futile, going to pieces,
   healthless, hole, hypoplastic, immature, imperfect, imperfection,
   in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of, in poor health,
   in short supply, inadequacy, inadequate, incompetent, incomplete,
   ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, infant, infirm, infirmity,
   insufficient, invalid, involution, kink, lacking, lame,
   languishing, lapse, little problem, loss of tone, manque,
   marcescent, miscarried, miscarrying, missing, moral flaw, moribund,
   needing, not enough, of no effect, pale, part, partial, patchy,
   peaked, peaky, pining, problem, reduced, reduced in health,
   regression, regressive, retrocession, retrogradation, retrograde,
   retrogression, retrogressive, rift, run-down, sans, scant, scanty,
   scarce, scrappy, short, shortcoming, shriveling, shy, sickly,
   sinking, sketchy, sliding, slippage, slipping, slump, slumping,
   snag, something missing, stickit, stillborn, subsiding,
   successless, tabetic, taint, too little, underdeveloped,
   undeveloped, unequal to, unfortunate, unhealthy, unqualified,
   unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unsound, unsuccessful, unsufficing,
   useless, valetudinarian, valetudinary, vice, vulnerable place,
   wane, waning, wanting, wasting, weak link, weak point, weak side,
   weakened, weakly, weakness, wilting, with low resistance,
   withering, without, worsening

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