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  • 41 prō-lābor

        prō-lābor lapsus, ī,    to glide forward, slide along, slip: at Canis ad caudam serpens prolabitur Argo, C. poët.: conlapsus pons, usque ad alterius initium pontis prolabi eum leniter cogebat, to slide along, L.—To fall forward, tumble, fall in ruins: equus cum prolapsum per caput regem effudisset, who fell headlong, L.: prolabens ex equo, L.: pro lapsa Pergama, ruined, V.: ipsis adminiculis prolapsis corruere, sliding from under them, L.—Fig., to go forward, be led on: me longius prolapsum esse, quam, etc., have spoken at more length: in misericordiam prolapsus est animus victoris, L.— To slip out, escape: ab aliquā cupiditate prolapsum verbum.—To fall, fail, err, be led astray: timore: cupiditate regni, L.—To fall to decay, sink, decline, go to ruin: ita prolapsa est (iuventus) ut coërcenda sit: rem temeritate eius prolapsam restituit, L.

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  • 42 re-frīgēscō

        re-frīgēscō frīxī, —, ere,     inch, to grow cold, be chilled: cor volnere laesum refrixit, O.—Fig., to grow cold, become remiss, lose force, abate, fail, flag: illud crimen in causā refrixit: belli apparatūs refrigescent: vereor, ne hasta Caesaris refrixerit, i. e. that Caesar's auctions have suffered a check: sortes plane refrixerunt, i. e. have fallen into disuse: cum Romae a iudiciis forum refrixerit, judicial business is dull: Scaurus refrixerat, i. e. was no longer thought of (as a candidate).

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  • 43 ruō

        ruō uī, ātus (P. fut. ruitūrus), ere    [1 RV-], to fall with violence, rush down, fall down, tumble down, go to ruin: caedebant pariter pariterque ruebant Victores victique, V.: ruere illa non possunt: tecta, tumble down, L.: Templa deum, H.: murus latius quam caederetur, L.: alta a culmine Troia, V.: ruit arduus aether, rain falls in torrents, V.: caelum in se, L.: ruit imbriferum ver, i. e. is ending, V.—Prov.: quid si nunc caelum ruat? i. e. what if the impossible happens? T.— To hasten, hurry, run, rush: id ne ferae quidem faciunt, ut ita ruant itaque turbent: (Pompeium) ruere nuntiant: Huc omnis turba ruebat, V.: ultro ruere ac se morti offerre, Ta.: in aquam, L.: in volnera ac tela, L.: ruebant laxatis habenis aurigae, Cu.: de montibus amnes, V.: per apertos flumina campos, O.: Nox ruit, i. e. hastens on, V.: antrum, Unde ruunt totidem voces, break forth, V.— To cause to fall, cast down, dash down, hurl to the ground, prostrate: Ceteros ruerem, agerem, T.: cumulos ruit harenae, levels, V.— To cast up, turn up, throw up, rake up: (mare) a sedibus (venti), V.: cinerem focis, V.: unde Divitias aerisque ruam acervos, H.—Fig., to fall, fail, sink, be ruined: ruere illam rem p.: sive ruet sive eriget rem p.— To rush, dash, hurry, hasten, run: ad interitum: pati reum ruere, L.: crudelitatis odio in crudelitatem, L.: In sua fata, O.: omnia fatis In peius, V.: Quo quo scelesti ruitis? H.: ut ferme fugiendo in media fata ruitur, L.
    * * *
    ruere, rui, rutus V
    destroy, ruin, overthrow; rush on, run; fall; charge (in + ACC); be ruined

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  • 44 decollo

    I
    decollare, decollavi, decollatus V TRANS
    behead, cause to be beheaded; remove from the neck (according to Nonius); rob
    II
    decollare, decollavi, decollatus V
    trickle/drain away/from/through; drain (of); come to naught, fail (L+S)

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  • 45 decolo

    decolare, decolavi, decolatus V
    trickle/drain away/from/through; drain (of); come to naught, fail (L+S)

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  • 46 delabor

    delabi, delapsus sum V DEP
    slip/fall/glide/fly/flow down; fall freely/out of control/prostrate; slip into; drop, descend; sink; fall/fail/lose strength; flow down; be carried downstream

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  • 47 delinquo

    delinquere, deliqui, delictus V
    fail (duty), be wanting/lacking, fall short; offend/do wrong/err/commit offence

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  • 48 demuto

    demutare, demutavi, demutatus V
    change/alter/transform; diviate from way/goal, fail; depart/be different from

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  • 49 desero

    I
    deserere, deserui, desertus V TRANS
    leave/depart/quit/desert; forsake/abandon/give up; withdraw support, let down; cease to be concerned with; fail/fall short; (PASS w/ABL) be without/deprived
    II
    deserere, desevi, desatus V TRANS
    plant, sow

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  • 50 frustro

    frustrare, frustravi, frustratus V TRANS
    disappoint, frustrate, deceive (w/false hope); escape/elude; baffle/evade; fail; reject; delay; rob/defraud/cheat; pretend; refute (argument); corrupt/falsify

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  • 51 Si fallatis officium, quaestor infitias eat se quicquam scire de factis vestris

    • If you fail, the secretary will disavow all knowledge of your activities

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  • 52 concido

    I.
    to be ruined, fail / cut up, cut down, destroy.
    II.
    to fall down, sink, perish / (wind) subside.

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  • 53 deficio

    I.
    (defectum) to fail, to weaken, to be in want.
    II.
    weaken, to be in want.

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  • 54 desum

    defui
    deesse
    to fail, err, fall short, be missing, absent.

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  • 55 aborior

    ăb-ŏrĭor, ortus, 4, v. n. dep.
    I.
    (Opp. of orior.) To set, disappear, pass away (very rare):

    infimus aër, ubi omnia oriuntur, ubi aboriuntur,

    Varr. L.L. 5, 7, § 66 Müll. —Of the voice, to fail, stop:

    infringi linguam vocemque aboriri,

    Lucr. 3, 155.—
    II.
    Of untimely birth, to miscarry (v. ab, III. 1.); Varr. ap. Non. 71, 27; Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 205.

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  • 56 cedo

    1.
    cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n. and a. [perh. for cecado, redupl. from cado], to go, i. e. to be in motion, move, walk, go along.
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Lit. (rare, and only poet.: for which, in the common lang., incedo);

    candidatus cedit hic mastigia,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 10:

    non prorsus, verum transvorsus cedit, quasi cancer,

    id. Ps. 4, 1, 45; cf. id. ib. 1, 3, 74; Hor. S. 2, 1, 65.—More freq.,
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    Like ire, to have some result, to eventuate, happen, result, turn out, to work; and, acc. to its connection, to turn out well or ill, to succeed or fail:

    gesta quae prospere ei cesserunt,

    Nep. Timoth. 4, 6; Sall. C. 26, 5; Tac. A. 1, 28:

    cetera secundum eventum proelii cessura,

    id. H. 3, 70; Suet. Aug. 91; Gell. 4, 5, 4:

    bene,

    Hor. S. 2, 1, 31; Ov. M. 8, 862; Plin. Pan. 44 fin.:

    optime,

    Quint. 10, 7, 14:

    male,

    Hor. S. 2, 1, 31; and:

    male alicui,

    Ov. M. 10, 80; Suet. Claud. 26; cf. Verg. A. 12, 148; Quint. 10, 2, 16:

    utcumque cesserit,

    Curt. 7, 4, 16; cf. Suet. Calig. 53; Tac. Agr. 18:

    parum,

    Suet. Claud. 34:

    opinione tardius,

    id. Ner. 33:

    pro bono,

    id. Tit. 7:

    in vanum (labor),

    Sen. Hippol. 183. —
    2.
    Cedere pro aliquā re, to be equivalent to, to go for something, to be the price of:

    oves, quae non peperint, binae pro singulis in fructu cedent,

    Cato, R. R. 150, 2; Col. 12, 14; Tac. G. 14; Pall. Sept. 1, 4.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    In respect to the terminus a quo.
    1.
    To go from somewhere, to remove, withdraw, go away from, depart, retire (freq. and class.):

    cedunt de caelo corpora avium,

    Enn. Ann. 96 Vahl.:

    quia postremus cedis,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 29:

    ego cedam atque abibo,

    Cic. Mil. 34, 93:

    cedens carinā,

    Cat. 64, 249; cf. id. 64, 53:

    quoquam,

    Lucr. 5, 843:

    aliquo sucus de corpore cessit,

    id. 3, 223:

    coma de vertice,

    Cat. 66, 39:

    e toto corpore anima,

    Lucr. 3, 210:

    ex ingratā civitate,

    Cic. Mil. 30, 81:

    e patriā,

    id. Phil. 10, 4, 8:

    patriā,

    id. Mil. 25, 68:

    Italiā,

    id. Phil. 10, 4, 8; Nep. Att. 9, 2; Tac. A. 2, 85 fin. —
    b.
    Milit. t. t.:

    de oppidis,

    to abandon, go away from, Cic. Att. 7, 22, 2:

    loco,

    to yield, give up his post, Nep. Chabr. 1, 2; Liv. 2, 47, 3; Tac. G. 6; Suet. Aug. 24 et saep.:

    ex loco,

    Liv. 3, 63, 1:

    ex acie,

    id. 2, 47, 2.—
    c.
    In commercial lang. t. t.: foro, to withdraw from the market, i. e. to give up business, be insolvent, stop payment, Dig. 16, 3, 7, § 2; Sen. Ben. 4, 39, 2; Juv. 11, 50.—So also,
    d.
    Bonis or possessionibus (alicui), to give up or cede one ' s property or interest (in favor of a person):

    alicui hortorum possessione,

    Cic. Mil. 27, 75; so id. Off. 2, 23, 82; cf. Suet. Tib. 10; id. Caes. 72; id. Ner. 35; id. Gram. 11.— Hence of debtors, to make over their property instead of payment; cf. Dig. 42, 3, tit. de cessione bonorum.—
    2.
    Pregn. (cf. abeo, II.), to pass away, disappear; and specif.,
    a.
    Of men, to die:

    vitā,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 35; Hor. S. 1, 1, 119:

    e vita,

    Cic. Brut. 1, 4; Plin. Pan. 43, 4; cf.

    senatu,

    to withdraw from, Tac. A. 2, 48; 11, 25.—
    b.
    Of time, to pass away, vanish:

    horae quidem cedunt et dies et menses et anni,

    Cic. Sen. 19, 69. —
    c.
    Of other things: pudor ex pectore cessit, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 250, 26:

    memoriā,

    Liv. 2, 33, 9 (for which:

    excedere memoriā,

    Liv. 7, 32, 15; and:

    excedere e memoriā,

    id. 26, 13, 5):

    non Turno fiducia cessit,

    Verg. A. 9, 126:

    cedant curaeque metusque,

    Stat. S. 1, 2, 26 et saep.; cf. cesso.—
    3.
    Trop.: cedere alicui or absol., to yield to one (to his superiority), to give the preference or precedence, give place to, submit to (class.; esp. freq. in the histt., of the weaker party, withdrawing, fleeing from).
    a.
    To yield to, give place to:

    quācumque movemur, (aër) videtur quasi locum dare et cedere,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 83:

    cedebat victa potestas,

    Lucr. 5, 1271:

    ubi vinci necesse est, expedit cedere,

    Quint. 6, 4, 16; 11, 1, 17; 12, 10, 47; cf. Sall. J. 51, 1:

    Viriatho exercitus nostri imperatoresque cesserunt,

    Cic. Off. 2, 11, 40; Nep. Ham. 1, 2; Sall. J. 51, 4; Liv. 2, 10, 7; Tac. A. 1, 56; 4, 51; Suet. Tib. 16 et saep.:

    Pelides cedere nescius,

    Hor. C. 1, 6, 6:

    di, quibus ensis et ignis Cesserunt,

    i. e. who remained unhurt in the destruction of Troy, Ov. M. 15, 862:

    eidem tempori, ejusdem furori, eisdem consulibus, eisdem minis, insidiis, periculis,

    Cic. Sest. 29, 63; so,

    fortunae,

    Sall. C. 34, 2:

    invidiae ingratorum civium,

    Nep. Cim. 3, 2:

    majorum natu auctoritati,

    id. Timoth. 3, 4:

    nocti,

    Liv. 3, 17, 9, and 3, 60, 7; 4, 55, 5; cf. Quint. 5, 11, 9:

    loco iniquo, non hosti cessum,

    Liv. 8, 38, 9:

    oneri,

    Quint. 10, 1, 24:

    vincentibus vitiis,

    id. 8, 3, 45:

    malis,

    Verg. A. 6, 95 et saep.—
    b.
    To yield to in rank, distinction, etc., i. e. to be inferior to:

    cum tibi aetas nostra jam cederet, fascesque summitteret,

    Cic. Brut. 6, 22:

    nullā aliā re nisi immortalitate cedens caelestibus,

    id. N. D. 2, 61, 153:

    neque multum cedebant virtute nostris,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 6; Quint. 1, 6, 36: Picenis cedunt pomis Tiburtia suco;

    Nam facie praestant,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 70; so,

    anseribus (candore),

    Ov. M. 2, 539:

    laudibus lanificae artis,

    id. ib. 6, 6;

    5, 529: cum in re nullā Agesilao cederet,

    Nep. Chabr. 2, 3; Quint. 10, 1, 108:

    alicui de aliquā re,

    Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 80:

    alicui re per aliquid,

    id. 33, 3, 19, § 59.— Impers.:

    ut non multum Graecis cederetur,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 3, 5; Liv. 24, 6, 8. —
    c.
    To comply with the wishes, to yield to one:

    cessit auctoritati amplissimi viri vel potius paruit,

    Cic. Lig. 7, 21; cf. Tac. A. 12, 5:

    precibus,

    Cic. Planc. 4, 9:

    cessit tibi blandienti Cerberus,

    Hor. C. 3, 11, 15;

    cf,

    id. Ep. 1, 18, 43 sq.; Verg. A. 2, 704; 3, 188; Ov. M. 6, 32; 6, 151; 9, 13;

    9, 16: omnes in unum cedebant,

    Tac. A. 6, 43; 3, 16; cf. id. ib. 12, 10 and 41.—Hence,
    4.
    Act.: cedere (alicui) aliquid = concedere, to grant, concede, allow, give up, yield, permit something to some one:

    permitto aliquid iracundiae tuae, do adulescentiae, cedo amicitiae, tribuo parenti,

    Cic. Sull. 16, 46:

    multa multis de jure suo,

    id. Off. 2, 18, 64:

    currum ei,

    Liv. 45, 39, 2:

    victoriam hosti,

    Just. 32, 4, 7:

    alicui pellicem et regnum,

    id. 10, 2, 3:

    imperium,

    id. 22, 7, 4:

    possessionem,

    Dig. 41, 2, 1:

    in dando et cedendo loco,

    Cic. Brut. 84, 290.—Also with a clause as object, Stat. Th. 1, 704 (but in Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 67, read credit).—And with ut and subj.:

    hac victoriā contenta plebes cessit patribus, ut in praesentiā tribuni crearentur, etc.,

    Liv. 6, 42, 3; Tac. A. 12, 41: non cedere with quominus, Quint. 5, 7, 2.—
    B.
    In respect to the terminus ad quem, to arrive, attain to, come somewhere:

    cedunt, petunt,

    Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 43:

    ibi ad postremum cedit miles, aes petit,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 52.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    hoc cedere ad factum volo,

    come to its execution, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 102.—
    C.
    Cedere alicui or in aliquem, to come to, fall ( as a possession) to one, to fall to his lot or share, [p. 308] accrue:

    ut is quaestus huic cederet,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 170:

    captiva corpora Romanis cessere,

    Liv. 31, 46, 16:

    nolle ominari quae captae urbi cessura forent,

    id. 23, 43, 14; Verg. A. 3, 297; 3, 333; 12, 17; 12, 183; Hor. C. 3, 20, 7; Ov. M. 5, 368; 4, 533:

    undae cesserunt piscibus habitandae,

    id. ib. 1, 74 al.:

    alicui in usum,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 134:

    Lepidi atque Antonii arma in Augustum cessere,

    Tac. A. 1, 1; so id. H. 3, 83; id. Agr. 5; id. A. 2, 23:

    aurum ex hostibus captum in paucorum praedam cessisse,

    Liv. 6, 14, 12; Curt. 7, 6, 16; Tac. A. 15, 45; for which: cedere praedae (dat.) alicujus, Liv. 43, 19, 12; and:

    praeda cedit alicui,

    Hor. C. 3, 20, 7:

    ab Tullo res omnis Albana in Romanum cesserit imperium,

    Liv. 1, 52, 2; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 174:

    in dicionem M. Antonii provinciae cesserant,

    Tac. H. 5, 9.—
    D.
    Cedere in aliquid, like abire in aliquid (v. abeo, II.), to be changed or to pass into something, to be equivalent to or become something:

    poena in vicem fidei cesserat,

    Liv. 6, 34, 2; cf.:

    temeritas in gloriam cesserat,

    Curt. 3, 6, 18; Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 91; Tac. H. 2, 59 fin.; id. G. 36; Plin. Pan. 83, 4:

    in proverbium,

    Plin. 23, 1, 23, § 42:

    in exemplorum locum,

    Quint. 5, 11, 36.—Hence, * cēdenter, adv. of the part. pres. cedens (not used as P. a.), by yielding, Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 16, 129.
    2.
    cĕdo, old imperat. form, whose contr. plur. is cette (cf. Prob. II. p. 1486 P.; Non. p. 84, 31 sq.) [compounded of the particle -ce and the root da-; v. 1. do], hither with it! here! give! tell, say (implying great haste, familiarity, authority, and so differing from praebe, dic, etc.); cf. Key, § 731.
    I.
    In gen., hither with it, give or bring here.
    (α).
    With acc.:

    cette manus vestras measque accipite,

    Enn. Trag. 320 Vahl.:

    cedo aquam manibus,

    give water! Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 150:

    puerum, Phidippe, mihi cedo: ego alam,

    Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 86:

    tuam mi dexteram,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 28; so Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 84; and:

    cette dextras,

    Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 4:

    senem,

    bring hither the old man, Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 7:

    convivas,

    Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 101:

    quemvis arbitrum,

    Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 43: eum aliquis cette in conspectum, Att. ap. Non. p. 85, 1:

    cedo illum,

    Phaedr. 5, 2, 6.—
    (β).
    Absol.: Al. En pateram tibi: eccam. Am. Cedo mi, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 146. —
    II.
    Esp.
    A.
    Let us hear, tell, out with it:

    age, age, cedo istuc tuom consilium: quid id est?

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 91:

    unum cedo auctorem tui facti, unius profer exemplum,

    Cic. Verr 2, 5, 26, § 67:

    cedo mihi unum, qui, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 12, § 29: cedo, si vos in eo loco essetis, quid aliud fecissetis? Cato ap. Quint. 9, 2, 21: cedo, cujum puerum hic apposuisti? dic mihi. Ter. And. 4, 4, 24; cf. Naev. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 20; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 82; Pac. ap. Non. p. 85, 6; Cic. Part. Or. 1, 3:

    cedo igitur, quid faciam,

    Ter. And. 2, 3, 9; cf. Cic. Div. 2, 71, 146; id. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 106: cedo, si conata peregit, tell how, if, etc., Juv. 13, 210; so id. 6, 504.—With dum:

    cedo dum, en unquam audisti, etc.?

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 15.—
    B.
    In respect to action, cedo = fac, ut, grant that, let me:

    cedo ut bibam,

    Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 26:

    cedo ut inspiciam,

    id. Curc. 5, 2, 54:

    ego, statim, cedo, inquam si quid ab Attico,

    Cic. Att. 16, 13, a, 1.—
    C.
    For calling attention, lo! behold! well! cedo mihi leges Atinias, Furias, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 42, § 109:

    cedo mihi ipsius Verris testimonium,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 33, § 84; id. N. D. 1, 27, 75; cf. id. Brut. 86, 295; id. Sest. 50, 108:

    haec cedo ut admoveam templis, et farre litabo,

    Pers. 2, 75:

    cedo experiamur,

    App. Mag. p. 298, 14.

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  • 57 concido

    1.
    con-cĭdo, cĭdi, 3, v. n. [cado], to fall together, to fall down, to tumble to the ground (class. in prose and poetry).
    I.
    In gen., of buildings:

    conclave illud concidit,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 86, 353:

    navis veluti terrestre machinamentum,

    Tac. A. 14, 6:

    turris terrae motu,

    Suet. Tib. 74; cf.:

    urbs acerbissimo concidat incendio conflagrata,

    Auct. Her. 4, 8, 12.—Of other objects:

    omne caelum,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 25, 27:

    ipse et equus ejus ante signum Jovis concidit,

    id. Div. 1, 35, 77:

    (alces) infirmas arbores pondere adfligunt atque unā ipsae concidunt,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 27:

    pinus bipenni Thessalā,

    Phaedr. 4, 7, 7:

    ad terram pondere vasto,

    Verg. A. 5, 448:

    sub onere,

    Liv. 24, 8, 17:

    pronus in fimo,

    Verg. A. 5, 333 al. —
    II.
    Pregn.
    A.
    To fall down faint or lifeless, to fall in battle or combat (cf. cado, I. B. 2.): concidit, et sonitum simul insuper arma dederunt, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 396 Vahl.):

    paene in cursu concidi,

    Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 16:

    vi morbi coactus concidere,

    Lucr. 3, 488; cf.:

    accesserat ad religionem, quod consul concidit, et parte membrorum captus, etc.,

    Liv. 41, 16, 3; 10, 29, 7; cf. Lucr. 6, 759:

    Entellus concidit, ut quondam cava concidit... pinus,

    Verg. A. 5, 448; Ov. M. 7, 538:

    sanus bibit, statim concidit,

    Quint. 4, 2, 54; cf.:

    concidere epoto poculo,

    id. 5, 13, 15; and:

    ad primum gustum,

    Suet. Ner. 33:

    deficientibus viribus,

    id. Tib. 73:

    par quoddam (gladiatorum) mutuis ictibus,

    id. Claud. 34; cf. Ov. M. 5, 77:

    Dido usa manu,

    id. H. 7, 196:

    sparo percussus,

    Nep. Epam. 9, 1:

    in proelio,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 37, 89:

    vitio adversariorum,

    Nep. Ages. 5, 2.—Of game:

    multaeque per herbas Conciderant illo percutiente ferae,

    Ov. H. 4, 94.—Of victims, to be slaughtered or slain, to fall:

    vitulus... propter mactatus concidit aras,

    Lucr. 2, 353; Tib. 1, 2, 62; Ov. M. 8, 764; 10, 272;

    hence also of Iphigenia,

    Lucr. 1, 99.—
    B.
    Trop. (cf. cado, II.), to lose strength, value, etc., to fall to the earth, to be overthrown, to fail, be defeated, to decay, perish, fall, to go to ruin, waste away, cease; of the wind, to fall, subside, go down:

    concidunt venti,

    Hor. C. 1, 12, 30; Lucr. 4, 509. —Of a flame:

    jam illa flamma, quae magnā congerie convaluerat, diductis quibus alebatur, concidet,

    Quint. 5, 13, 13; cf. in a figure: nonne, ut ignis in aquam conjectus continuo restinguitur et refrigeratur, sic refervens falsum crimen in purissimam et castissimam vitam collatum statim concidit et restinguitur? Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 17:

    macie,

    to shrink together, shrivel up, Ov. H. 21, 215:

    illas assumere robora gentes, Concidere has,

    id. M. 15, 422; cf.:

    concidit auguris Argivi domus,

    Hor. C. 3, 16, 11:

    quā concidit Ilia tellus,

    Verg. A. 11, 245:

    eodem anno, quo Carthago concidit,

    Vell. 1, 13:

    judicum vocibus fractus reus et unā patroni omnes conciderunt,

    Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; cf. id. ib. §

    10: ecquis umquam tam ex amplo statu concidit?

    id. ib. 3, 10, 2:

    malas causas semper obtinuit, in optimā concidit,

    id. ib. 7, 25 med.:

    concidit (Phocion) maxime uno crimine, quod, etc.,

    Nep. Phoc. 2, 4; Tac. A. 16, 21; cf.:

    Tiberii saevitiā,

    id. ib. 16, 29:

    hostes concidunt animis,

    are disheartened, Hirt. B. G. 8, 19; cf. Cic. Div. 2, 58, 119:

    scimus Romae solutione impeditā fidem concidisse,

    failed, was prostrated, id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19; cf. id. ib. 7, 19 fin.:

    opes Persarum,

    Tac. A. 12, 13:

    senatūs auctoritas,

    Cic. Att. 1, 16, 7; cf.:

    imperii majestas,

    Nep. Pelop. 2, 4; Cic. Or. 43, 148:

    artificia,

    id. Ac. 2, 47, 146:

    praeclara nomina artificum,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 6, § 12:

    omnis ferocia,

    Liv. 28, 26, 14:

    bellum,

    Tac. H. 2, 57 al.
    2.
    con-cīdo, cīdi, cīsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut up, cut through, cut away, cut to pieces, to bring to ruin, destroy, etc. (class. in prose and poetry).
    I.
    Prop.
    A.
    In gen.:

    nervos,

    Cic. Fl. 30, 73:

    corpus in partes,

    Petr. 141, 2:

    vitulum Ajax,

    id. 59 fin.:

    ligna,

    Ov. F. 2, 647:

    agrum umidiorem fossis,

    Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 47:

    concidere et cremare naves,

    to break up, Liv. 38, 39, 2:

    essedum argenteum,

    Suet. Claud. 16:

    haec minute,

    Col. 12, 22.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To cut to pieces, for to beat severely, cudgel soundly:

    aliquem virgis,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 47, § 122:

    loris,

    Juv. 6, 413:

    pugnis,

    id. 3, 300.—
    2.
    To cut to pieces in war, to cut down, destroy, kill:

    hi novissimos adorti magnam multitudinem eorum fugientium conciderunt,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 11:

    eos inopinantes adgressus magnam partem eorum concidit,

    id. ib. 1, 12; so Cic. Prov. Cons. 4, 9; id. Att. 5, 16, 4; Nep. Dion, 10, 1; id. Dat. 6, 6; id. Hann. 3, 4.—
    3.
    In mal. part. (cf. caedo, I. B. 3.), to lie with, Pompon. ap. Non. p. 166, 2;

    hence caede, concide, in a double sense as an address to gladiators,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 66, § 155 Zumpt; cf. Lampr. Elag. 10. —
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Of discourse, to divide minutely, dismember, render feeble:

    nec minutos numeros sequens concidat delumbetque sententias,

    Cic. Or. 69, 231; cf.:

    (sunt qui) infringendis concidendisque numeris in quoddam genus abjectum incidant,

    id. ib. 69, 230; so also Quint. praef. § 24; cf. id. 3, 11, 21; 5, 10, 91; 11, 3, 53 al.—
    B.
    To strike down, to prostrate, ruin, destroy, annul, by word or deed:

    omnem auctoritatem universi ordinis,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 1, 4:

    Antonium decretis vestris,

    id. Phil. 5, 11, 28:

    Vatinium arbitratu nostro,

    to annihilate, id. Q. Fr. 2, 4, 1; cf.:

    Sevius adlisus est, ceteri conciduntur,

    are condemned, id. ib. 2, 4, 6:

    Timocraten totis voluminibus,

    to confute, id. N. D. 1, 33, 93:

    testamentum,

    to revoke, Dig. 28, 4, 1.—
    * 2.
    In Plaut., to deceive, cheat, defraud:

    em istic homo te articulatim concidit,

    Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 52 Ritschl.—Hence, concīsus, a, um, P. a. (in acc. with II. A.), divided, broken up, short, concise:

    sententiae,

    Cic. Brut. 17, 66:

    concisae et angustae disputationes,

    id. de Or. 2, 14, 61:

    brevitas,

    id. ib. 3, 53, 202:

    brevia illa atque concisa,

    Quint. 10, 7, 10; cf.

    thus with brevis,

    id. 6, 4, 2; and (opp. perpetuus) id. 2, 20, 7; 2, 21, 13; Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 327.— Transf. of the orator Thrasymachus, Cic. Or. 13, 40.— Comp.:

    insonuerit vox tubae longior atque concisior,

    Vulg. Jos. 6, 5.— Adv.: concīsē, briefly, concisely:

    (philosophia) non tam est minute atque concise in actionibus utendum, etc.,

    Quint. 12, 2, 11:

    ululare,

    Vulg. Num. 10, 7.

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  • 58 conruo

    cor-rŭo ( conr-), ŭi, 3, v. n. and a.
    I.
    Neutr.
    A.
    To fall together, fall or tumble down, fall, sink to the ground, etc. (class. in prose and poetry).
    1.
    Lit.:

    tabernae mihi duae corruerunt,

    Cic. Att. 14, 9, 1; cf.:

    aedes corruerunt,

    id. Top. 3, 15:

    triclinium supra convivas,

    Quint. 11, 2, 13:

    quicquid superstruxeris corruet,

    id. 1, 4, 5:

    quid labefactum viribus ignis,

    Ov. M. 2, 403; cf.:

    arbor labefacta Ictibus innumeris,

    id. ib. 8, 777; so,

    arbor,

    Suet. Dom. 15:

    statuae equestres,

    id. Vit. 9 et saep.:

    paene ille timore, ego risu conrui,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 8 (10), 2:

    nec corruit ille, Sed retinente manum moriens e poste pependit,

    Ov. M. 5, 126; so,

    exspirantes corruerunt,

    Liv. 1, 25, 5; cf. id. 1, 26, 14:

    morbo comitiali,

    Plin. 28, 6, 17, § 63:

    in vulnus,

    Verg. A. 10, 488:

    haedus ante focos,

    Prop. 2 (3), 19, 14; cf. id. 4 (5), 10, 15 sq.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    si uno meo fato et tu et omnes mei conruistis,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 1:

    quanto altius elatus erat, eo foedius corruit,

    Liv. 30, 30, 23:

    Lacedaemoniorum opes,

    Cic. Off. 1, 24, 84:

    Antiochea ista universa,

    id. Ac. 2, 31, 98.—Of actors:

    ii mihi videntur fabulam aetatis peregisse, nec tamquam inexercitati histriones corruisse,

    Cic. Sen. 18, 64.—In a cause in court, to fail, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 34.—
    B.
    To fall, to rush headlong (very rare):

    quo cum corruit haec vis,

    Lucr. 6, 825: accipitres velut rostris inter se corruerent, were falling upon each other (al. leg. concurrerent), Curt. 3, 3, 18.— Impers.:

    longe violentius semper ex necessitate quam ex virtute corruitur,

    the onset is made, Sen. Q. N. 2, 59, 5.—
    II.
    Act., to bring to the ground, to heap together, overthrow, ruin (very rare).
    1.
    Lit.:

    hanc rerum summam,

    Lucr. 5, 369:

    corpus,

    App. M. 8, p. 204, 37:

    divitias,

    to heap up, Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 58:

    corbes ab eo quod eo spicas aliudve quid corruebant,

    Varr. L. L. 5, § 139 Müll.—
    * 2.
    Trop.:

    in quo me corruerit genere,

    Cat. 68, 52.

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  • 59 corruo

    cor-rŭo ( conr-), ŭi, 3, v. n. and a.
    I.
    Neutr.
    A.
    To fall together, fall or tumble down, fall, sink to the ground, etc. (class. in prose and poetry).
    1.
    Lit.:

    tabernae mihi duae corruerunt,

    Cic. Att. 14, 9, 1; cf.:

    aedes corruerunt,

    id. Top. 3, 15:

    triclinium supra convivas,

    Quint. 11, 2, 13:

    quicquid superstruxeris corruet,

    id. 1, 4, 5:

    quid labefactum viribus ignis,

    Ov. M. 2, 403; cf.:

    arbor labefacta Ictibus innumeris,

    id. ib. 8, 777; so,

    arbor,

    Suet. Dom. 15:

    statuae equestres,

    id. Vit. 9 et saep.:

    paene ille timore, ego risu conrui,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 8 (10), 2:

    nec corruit ille, Sed retinente manum moriens e poste pependit,

    Ov. M. 5, 126; so,

    exspirantes corruerunt,

    Liv. 1, 25, 5; cf. id. 1, 26, 14:

    morbo comitiali,

    Plin. 28, 6, 17, § 63:

    in vulnus,

    Verg. A. 10, 488:

    haedus ante focos,

    Prop. 2 (3), 19, 14; cf. id. 4 (5), 10, 15 sq.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    si uno meo fato et tu et omnes mei conruistis,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 1:

    quanto altius elatus erat, eo foedius corruit,

    Liv. 30, 30, 23:

    Lacedaemoniorum opes,

    Cic. Off. 1, 24, 84:

    Antiochea ista universa,

    id. Ac. 2, 31, 98.—Of actors:

    ii mihi videntur fabulam aetatis peregisse, nec tamquam inexercitati histriones corruisse,

    Cic. Sen. 18, 64.—In a cause in court, to fail, Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 34.—
    B.
    To fall, to rush headlong (very rare):

    quo cum corruit haec vis,

    Lucr. 6, 825: accipitres velut rostris inter se corruerent, were falling upon each other (al. leg. concurrerent), Curt. 3, 3, 18.— Impers.:

    longe violentius semper ex necessitate quam ex virtute corruitur,

    the onset is made, Sen. Q. N. 2, 59, 5.—
    II.
    Act., to bring to the ground, to heap together, overthrow, ruin (very rare).
    1.
    Lit.:

    hanc rerum summam,

    Lucr. 5, 369:

    corpus,

    App. M. 8, p. 204, 37:

    divitias,

    to heap up, Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 58:

    corbes ab eo quod eo spicas aliudve quid corruebant,

    Varr. L. L. 5, § 139 Müll.—
    * 2.
    Trop.:

    in quo me corruerit genere,

    Cat. 68, 52.

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  • 60 decedo

    dē-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3 ( inf. sync. decesse, Ter. Heaut. prol. 32; Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; Neue Formenl. 2, 536. The part. perf. decessus perh. only Rutil. Nam. 1, 313), v. n., to go away, depart, withdraw. (For syn. cf.: linquo, relinquo, desero, destituo, deficio, discedo, excedo. Often opp. to accedo, maneo; freq. and class.)—Constr. absol. with de, ex, or merely the abl.; rarely with ab.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    decedamus,

    Plaut. Bac. 1, 1, 74:

    de altera parte (agri) decedere,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 10:

    decedit ex Gallia Romam Naevius,

    Cic. Quint. 4, 16:

    e pastu,

    Verg. G. 1, 381; cf.:

    e pastu decedere campis,

    id. ib. 4, 186:

    ex aequore domum,

    id. ib. 2, 205;

    Italiā,

    Sall. J. 28, 2:

    Numidiā,

    id. ib. 38, 9:

    Africā,

    id. ib. 20, 1;

    23, 1: pugnā,

    Liv. 34, 47:

    praesidio,

    id. 4, 29 (cf.:

    de praesidio,

    Cic. de Sen. 20, 73):

    quae naves paullulum suo cursu decesserint,

    i. e. had gone out of their course, Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 3; so,

    cum luminibus exstinctis decessisset viā,

    had gone out of the way, Suet. Caes. 31:

    pantherae constituisse dicuntur in Cariam ex nostra provincia decedere,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 11, 2.
    B.
    Esp.
    1.
    t. t.
    a.
    In milit. lang., to retire, withdraw from a former position:

    qui nisi decedat atque exercitum deducat ex his regionibus,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 19;

    so,

    absol., id. ib. 1, 44 fin.; Hirt. B. G. 8, 50:

    de colle,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 71, 3:

    de vallo,

    id. B. G. 5, 43, 4:

    inde,

    id. B. C. 1, 71 fin.:

    loco superiore,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 9; so with abl., Auct. B. Alex. 34; 35 (twice); 70 al.—
    b.
    In official lang.: de provincia, ex provincia, provinciā, or absol. (cf. Cic. Planc. 26, 65), to retire from the province on the expiration of a term of office:

    de provincia decessit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20;

    so,

    id. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Fam. 2, 15 (twice); Liv. 29, 19 Drak.:

    decedens ex Syria,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61; so,

    e Cilicia,

    id. Brut. 1:

    ex Africa,

    Nep. Cato, 1, 4:

    ex Asia,

    id. Att. 4, 1:

    ex ea provincia,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1 Zumpt N. cr.:

    ut decedens Considius provinciā,

    Cic. Lig. 1, 2; Liv. 39, 3; 41, 10:

    te antea, quam tibi successum esset, decessurum fuisse,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 6; so absol., id. Planc. 26, 65 al.:

    Albinus Romam decessit,

    Sall. J. 36 fin.; cf.:

    Romam ad triumphum,

    Liv. 8, 13; 9, 16. —Rarely with a:

    cui cum respondissem, me a provincia decedere: etiam mehercule, inquit, ut opinor, ex Africa,

    Cic. Planc. 26 fin.
    2.
    Decedere de viā; also viā, in viā alicui, alicui, or absol., to get out of the way, to give place, make way for one (as a mark of respect or of abhorrence):

    concedite atque abscedite omnes: de via decedite,

    Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 1; cf.:

    decedam ego illi de via, de semita,

    id. Trin. 2, 4, 80 (Cic. Clu. 59. [p. 517] 163; cf. II. B infra); cf.:

    qui fecit servo currenti in viā decesse populum,

    Ter. Heaut. prol. 32:

    censorem L. Plancum via sibi decedere aedilis coegit,

    Suet. Ner. 4; cf. id. Tib. 31:

    sanctis divis, Catul. 62, 268: nocti,

    Verg. Ec. 8, 88:

    peritis,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 216 (cf.:

    cedere nocti,

    Liv. 3, 60, 7).—Also, to get out of the way of, avoid:

    decedere canibus de via,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 67; cf.:

    hi numero impiorum habentur, his omnes decedunt, aditum defugiunt, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 13, 7.—By zeugma, in the pass.:

    salutari, appeti, decedi, assurgi, deduci, reduci, etc.,

    Cic. de Sen. 18, 63.
    3.
    Pregn., to depart, disappear (cf.: cedo, concedo).
    a.
    Of living beings, to decease, to die:

    si eos, qui jam de vita decesserunt,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 11:

    vitā,

    Dig. 7, 1, 57, § 1; Vulg. 2 Mac. 6, 31; but commonly absol.:

    pater nobis decessit a. d. VIII. Kal. Dec.,

    id. Att. 1, 6:

    cum paterfamiliae decessit,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 19, 3; Nep. Arist. 3, 2, and 3; id. Cim. 1; id. Ages. 8, 6; Liv. 1, 34; 9, 17; Quint. 3, 6, 96 et saep.:

    cruditate contracta,

    id. 7, 3, 33:

    morbo aquae intercutis,

    Suet. Ner. 5 fin.:

    paralysi,

    id. Vit. 3:

    ex ingratorum hominum conspectu morte decedere,

    Nep. Timol. 1, 6.—
    b.
    Of inanimate things, to depart, go off; to abate, subside, cease:

    corpore febres,

    Lucr. 2, 34:

    febres,

    Nep. Att. 22, 3; Cels. 3, 3; cf.:

    quartana,

    Cic. Att. 7, 2 (opp. accedere):

    decessisse inde aquam,

    run off, fallen, Liv. 30, 38 fin.; cf.:

    decedere aestum,

    id. 26, 45; 9, 26 al.:

    de summa nihil decedet,

    to be wanting, to fail, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 30; Cic. Clu. 60, 167; cf.:

    quicquid libertati plebis caveretur, id suis decedere opibus credebant,

    Liv. 3, 55:

    decedet jam ira haec, etsi merito iratus est,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 55 (for which ib. 5, 2, 15: cito ab eo haec ira abscedet):

    postquam invidia decesserat,

    Sall. J. 88, 1; Liv. 33, 31 fin.; Tac. A. 15, 16 al.:

    priusquam ea cura decederet patribus,

    Liv. 9, 29; so with dat., id. 2, 31; 23, 26; Tac. A. 15, 20; 44.— Poet.:

    incipit et longo Scyros decedere ponto,

    i. e. seems to flee before them, Stat. Ach. 2, 308.—In the Aug. poets sometimes of the heavenly bodies, to go down, set:

    et sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras,

    Verg. E. 2, 67; so id. G. 1, 222; Ov. M. 4, 91; hence also of the day, to depart:

    te veniente die, te decedente canebat,

    Verg. G. 4, 466;

    also of the moon,

    to wane, Gell. 20, 8, 7.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    De possessione, jure, sententia, fide, etc. (and since the Aug. per. with abl. alone;

    the reading ex jure suo,

    Liv. 3, 33, 10, is very doubtful), to depart from; to give up, resign, forego; to yield, to swerve from one's possession, station, duty, right, opinion, faith, etc.
    (α).
    With de:

    cogere aliquem de suis bonis decedere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17 fin.; cf.:

    de hypothecis,

    id. Fam. 13, 56, 2;

    and de possessione,

    id. Agr. 2, 26;

    de suo jure,

    id. Rosc. Am. 27; id. Att. 16, 2:

    qui de civitate decedere quam de sententia maluit,

    id. Balb. 5:

    de officio ac dignitate,

    id. Verr. 1, 10:

    de foro decedere,

    to retire from public life, Nep. Att. 10, 2:

    de scena,

    to retire from the stage, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; cf. impers.:

    de officio decessum,

    Liv. 8, 25 fin. —
    (β).
    With abl. alone (so usually in Liv.):

    jure suo,

    Liv. 3, 33 fin.:

    sententiā,

    Tac. A. 14, 49:

    instituto vestro,

    Liv. 37, 54:

    officio (opp. in fide atque officio pristino fore),

    id. 27, 10; 36, 22:

    fide,

    id. 31, 5 fin.; 34, 11; 45, 19 al.:

    poema... si paulum summo decessit, vergit ad imum,

    Hor. A. P. 378.—
    (γ).
    Very rarely with ab:

    cum (senatus) nihil a superioribus continuorum annorum decretis decesserit,

    Cic. Fl. 12.—
    (δ).
    Absol.: si quos equites decedentis nactus sum, supplicio adfeci, Asin. Pol. ap. C. Fam. 10, 32, 5.
    B.
    De via, to depart, deviate from the right way:

    se nulla cupiditate inductum de via decessisse,

    Cic. Cael. 16, 38:

    moleste ferre se de via decessisse,

    id. Clu. 59, 163; so,

    viā dicendi,

    Quint. 4, 5, 3.
    C.
    (acc. to no. I. B. 2) To give way, yield to another (i. e. to his will or superior advantages—very rare):

    vivere si recte nescis, decede peritis,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 213:

    ubi non Hymetto Mella decedunt,

    are not inferior, id. Od. 2, 6, 15.
    D.
    ( poet.) To avoid, shun, escape from (cf. I. B. 2 supra): nec serae meminit decedere nocti, to avoid the late night, i. e. the coldness of night, Varius ap. Macr. S. 6, 2, 20; Verg. Ecl. 8, 88; id. G. 3, 467:

    calori,

    id. ib. 4, 23.
    E.
    To fall short of, degenerate from:

    de generis nobilitate,

    Pall. 3, 25, 2: a rebus gestis ejus et gloriae splendore, Justin. 6, 3, 8.
    * III.
    For the simple verb (v. cedo, no. I. 2), to go off, turn out, result in any manner:

    prospere decedentibus rebus,

    Suet. Caes. 24.

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  • FAIL (N. du) — FAIL NOËL DU, seigneur de La Hérissaye (1520 1591) Magistrat breton, conseiller au parlement de Bretagne après des études qui lui ont fait faire un traditionnel tour de France des universités: Poitiers, Angers, Bourges et Avignon. Après avoir… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Fail — Fail, v. t. 1. To be wanting to; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert. [1913 Webster] There shall not fail thee a man on the throne. 1 Kings ii. 4. [1913 Webster] 2. To miss of attaining; to lose. [R.] [1913 Webster] Though that seat… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fail — early 13c., from O.Fr. falir (11c., Mod.Fr. faillir) be lacking, miss, not succeed, from V.L. *fallire, from L. fallere to trip, cause to fall; figuratively to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, elude; fail, be lacking or defective. Related: Failed;… …   Etymology dictionary

  • fail — [v1] be unsuccessful abort, backslide, back wrong horse*, be defeated, be demoted, be found lacking*, be in vain*, be ruined, blunder, break down, come to naught, come to nothing, decline, deteriorate, fall, fall flat*, fall short*, fall through* …   New thesaurus

  • fail — ► VERB 1) be unsuccessful in an undertaking. 2) be unable to meet the standards set by (a test). 3) judge (a candidate in an examination or test) not to have passed. 4) neglect to do. 5) disappoint expectations: chaos has failed to materialize.… …   English terms dictionary

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