How to pronounce fail in English

"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."

"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 vigor activity resources etc.; to become weaker; as a sick man fails."

"To perish; to die; -- used of a person."

"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."

"To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated."

"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."

"To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert."

"To miss of attaining; to lose."

"Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing except in the phrase without fail."

"Death; decease."