Fail: v.intr. (word coming from dé- and fail).
The verb "fail" has several meanings:
1. Aged or literary meaning: To fail, to miss.
Quotation from the French writer Colette (1873-1954): “His help which does not fail”.
2. Modern meaning: Momentarily losing one's physical strength, fainting (passing out, fainting, fainting; colloquial: fainting; fainting).
I was about to faint.
Fainting from hunger, fright...
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