EGAVE

failing

About 8.82 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb present participle and gerund of fail
  2. noun weakness; defect
    His worst failing is his temper.
  3. preposition If what follows is not possible; without.
    A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement.

Similar words

weakness unsatisfactory unsuccessful deteriorating declining retrograde regressing retrogressive regressive fault

Often followed by

to in that health of this the which and

Word family

failings

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