What is another word for failing?

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smitten, frail, leaden, worse, shaky, unsteady, drained, indisposed, unfit, diseased, incapacitated, goner, Achilles' Heel, homebound, Thru, woozy, barring, undernourished, senile, dying, weak point, Onto, wretched, Upon, damage, Among, ailing, disordered, underside, shivery, housebound, Amid, unhealthy, blah, pending, stricken, abnormality, Qua, With, Unto, Sickened, groggy, lightheaded, From, Toward, Against, Into, preposition, bedridden, aging, disgusted, fragile, shocked, wobbly, sickly, aboard, feverish, languid, delirious, at, fatally, poverty, giddy, fevered, Of, prep, disadvantage, dizzy, limitation, contagious, rough, critical, grim, terminal, terrible, dead, down, falling off, scarcity, deceive, short coming, immature, in want of, Non-fulfilment, transgression, glitch, abortion, before, run-down, disgrace, peaked, downtrend, kink, inattentiveness, forgetfulness, inattention, bug, fallibility, disfigurement, debasement, lacking, arrested, feebleness, Valetudinary, infant, diminishing, misbehavior, falling to pieces, flagging, weak spot, inactivity, operating, rickety, goof, stillborn, be defeated, tumbledown, trick, incongruity, involution, staging, derelict, mismanagement, liability, sinking, per, malpractice, dilapidated, depreciation, unprepared, passiveness, senescent, scrappy, Separating, Discontinuing, aborting, impotence, inoperative, come to grief, delinquent, eject, wane, aggravate, slump, remissness, retrogression, weakened, in danger, cheating, flunk, oversight, imparting, lasting, bootless, dropping, Desisting, fragmenting, Excluding, abating, regression, Retrocession, twist, snag, departing, imperfectness, futile, erring, analysing, frustration, parting, oscitancy, part, ebb, unsturdy, doddering, Ceasing, in short supply, helplessness, rifling, Bombarding, subsiding, want, blot, breaking up, Defeating, Denouncing, in trouble, in extremis, Escaping, downfall, miss, quirk, cuckolding, uncompleted, useless, corrupting, miscarry, indiscretion, disregard, living, Exposing, decadency, Distributing, fluff, eccentricity, hollow, unshaken, defeat, Languishing, draining, in arrears, meager, Defaulting, limping, weakening, coming apart, leg, short memory, catch, exhausted, drooping, hang-up, rift, recrudescing, fall through, falling apart, cracking, Palling, atrophy, crumple up, Muffing, powerlessness, bad habit, degradation, enfeebled, decadent, disease, Deceasing, laxity, diminution, proceeding, defective, bettering, capital crime, preoccupation, dilapidation, terminate, lack, worsen, at fault, Bumping, doting, decadence, crude, declination, except for, Shriveling, Analyzing, insufficiency, Bolting, check, going, break, loss, misconduct, Checking, unfinished, fragility, destroy, bungling, passivity, mistake, crippled, Half-dead, ending, degeneracy, blunder, die, mark, sliding, drop, Declaring, unconcern, slipping, delictum, default, Abandoning, fall down, unsubstantiality, negligent, Successless, setting aside, declension, misdeed, Without, emitting, go under, relegating, sin, in one's dotage, in poor health, exclusive of, breathing one's last, unfortunate, Retrogradation, debilitated, unequal to, callow, wilting, shortfall, unqualified, Miscarrying, disintegration, rating, indulgence, Marcescent, taint, Breaching, exiting, apart from, Feeble-minded, deteriorate, Depravedness, neglect, valetudinarian, Depravation, break down, surviving, starting, remiss, be lacking, collapse, deterioration, deviation, slipping away, crotchet, shabby, Slumping, demotion, descent, hypoplastic, effeteness, fade, slippage, simple, Misdoing, go broke, neglectful, belonging, Extending, heedlessness, peculiarity, decrease, decrepit, Pausing, debility, Damping, expiring, imperfect, withering, lapse of memory, blending, neglectfulness, Dissecting, plumping, Needing, partial, derogation, shopping, snitching, Healthless, fizzle out, dwindling, incompetence, worsening, Excepting, of no effect, indifference, comedown, inefficacious, slip, travelling, developing, bad break, Fracturing, ineffectual, inaction, Divulging, Precluding, idiosyncrasy, oddity, ramshackle, Shipwrecking, embryonic, Disintegrating, sounding, traveling, downturn, dotty, sketchy, in default of, oscitance, Miscarried, foundering, erupting, unsound, wasting, Demoting, disclosing, deformation, Interrupting, inadvertence, irregularity, incompetent, pining, fruitless, demerit, happening, peccadillo, missing, delinquency, degeneration, negligence, perfunctory, reduced, undeveloped, underdeveloped, Tabetic, Sans, Eliminating, get lost, slackness, carelessness, expel, crashing, decomposing, Discovering, crushing, patchy, go bust, wandering, Crumbling, stain, loophole, frustrate, Terminating, dampening, besetting sin, bombing, blemish, cloven foot, pale, faute, achilles heel, Decaying, Bankrupting, enduring, betraying, hole, cachectic, moving, lapsus, Omitting, revealing, laxness, on one's deathbed, cancel, Deserting, negate, manque, abort, invalid, functioning, peaky, forsake, lose, disappoint, bankruptcy, forgetful, Crumpling, ebbing, wasted, dereliction, offending, violate, come to naught, crack, fail, worse for wear, insufficiently, effete, trip, backfiring, fading, tripping, breakdown, trip up, problem, nullify, Botching, fall, cease, fall short of, in arrear, be missing, moribund, reduced in health, inconsistency, Stickit, Degenerateness, broken-down, Deceiving, fizzle, in-effectual, ineffective, more miscarried, more ineffective, in-effective, most failed, un productive, more failed, failed, un-availing, mis carried, un successful, un-successful, un-productive, in effectual, most miscarried, in effective, mis-carried, un availing, failing, de-graded, most worsen, in famous, de-cadent, de-generated, infamous, more worsen, de generate, more flatitious, un-healthiest, more vitiated, de-based, de generated, de graded, more demeaned, most demeaned, more overripe, most overripe, dis solute, un healthy, de cadent, retro-grade, un-healthier, most degenerated, un-healthy, dis-solute, de-generate, un healthier, un healthiest, more degenerated, most flatitious, de based, most vitiated, in-famous, retro grade, over ripe, unfulfilling, unsatisfying, falling short, lame, impotent, sapless, wimpy, fainter, out of gas, enervated, Strengthless, inefficient, helpless, in aptest, un qualified, junker, un equal, un-equal, junkest, most lemon, in-aptest, in apter, incapable, in adequate, in-adequate, most niggardly, more niggardly, more stinted, glitcher, in-commensurate, most stinted, in commensurate, in-complete, glitchest, in appreciable, in considerable, un-qualified, in-capable, bushleague, inconsiderable, in complete, incomplete, in-appreciable, in-apter, in-considerable, more lemon, too little, in capable, in-secure, in firmest, un sounder, in-securer, most sensile, in-firmer, un-sound, un-substantial, un-stable, in firmer, in securer, un stable, in-securest, un-sounder, un substantial, most faltering, un-stabler, more anile, un-soundest, un stablest, in-firm, in securest, un sound, in-firmest, more faltering, un-stablest, most anile, more sensile, un stabler, in secure, short of, too little too late, unample, insufficient, out of, unfitted, featherweight, of no account, Imponderous, shy, scant, vain, wanting, unavailing, unprosperous, defeated, Unthriving, short, deficient, in-disposed, out sorts, in disposed, under weather, scrimpier, most minimal, scrimpiest, more shortened, un commonest, more truncated, more seldom, un-common, un-usual, un common, un usual, un commoner, few, most truncated, semi-occasional, un-commoner, most seldom, most semioccasional, more semioccasional, semi occasional, at premium, few far between, most shortened, shorthanded, shortest, low on, more unsufficient, un-sufficient, scrimpest, un sufficient, most unsufficient, un-fulfilled, more unfulfilled, not to par, co oked, not par, most away, co-oked, more away, unfulfilled, sub-standard, not up par, most unfulfilled, more cooked, un fulfilled, most cooked, sub standard, heel achilles, tender spots, weak links, achilles-heel, damaging weaknesses, chink the armor, faint, weak, better, help, infectious, ill, sick, on your deathbed, someone's number is up, someone's/something's days are numbered, on your last legs, not long for this world, at death's door, defection, chink armor, under belly, under bellies, under-bellies, under-belly, chink one armor, weak sides, chink in one armor, chink in ones armor, chink-armor, vulnerable places, chink ones armor, chink one's armor, de generation, dis solution, de cay, dis solutions, dyings, de cadences, de-compositions, de-composition, de crease, de-cadence, de creases, de cadence, dis-solutions, dis-repair, rottings, de-creases, crumblings, de composition, de generations, dis repair, dis-integrations, dis-solution, perishings, dis-repairs, dis integrations, de-generation, de cays, de compositions, dis integration, fadings, wastings, dis repairs, de-crease, de-cadences, de-cays, dis-integration, spoilations, de-cay, wasting aways, de-generations, de-scent, de scents, dwindlings, de volutions, weakenings, falling offs, re cessions, re-lapse, re-lapses, re lapse, re-cessions, on the skid, de clines, de-volutions, de-cline, devolutions, worsenings, re cession, de cline, on skids, re lapses, re-cession, on skid, de scent, de volution, de-volution, de-clines, de-scents, dis coloration, dis-coloration, dis colorations, dis-colorations, in juries, marrings, rough spots, in jury, in-jury, mis-take, mis-takes, mis takes, mis take, dis affection, dis-loyalty, re volt, dis-affection, re-volt, re treats, re-treats, re-volts, forsakings, sunderings, disownments, re-treat, dis-affections, dis loyalty, dis affections, dis-loyalties, re volts, dis loyalties, de-fault, de merit, de merits, in-sufficiencies, inability hack it, in-sufficiency, in sufficiencies, insufficiences, in sufficiency, de-merit, de fault, de faults, de-merits, de-faults, deteriorating, disadvantage(s), dis advantages, de-privations, in-conveniences, in conveniences, blockings, de privation, in utility, in convenience, fly in ointment, de privations, de-privation, dis commodity, in-utilities, dis commodities, dis-commodities, in utilities, fly ointment, dis-advantage, in-utility, adverse circumstance, dis-advantages, dis advantage, dis-commodity, fly the ointment, in-convenience, regressive, declining, retrogressive, unsatisfactory, unsuccessful, retrograde, regressing, lemon, washout, lead balloon, sinking ship, non-success, faux pas, nonperformance, nonsuccess, implosion, fiasco, loser, unsuccessfulness, Unsuccess, nonfeasance, total loss, Non-performance, insolvency, in-discretions, in discretions, mis deed, in discretion, in-discretion, in accuracies, in accuracy, mis cue, in-accuracies, answerabilities, mis-cues, mis-deed, mis demeanor, mis-deeds, mis-demeanor, over sight, mis cues, slip ups, in-accuracy, mis-conduct, mis conduct, mis-conducts, loss innocence, over sights, evil doings, mis-demeanors, mis deeds, mis-cue, over-sight, mis conducts, mis demeanors, over-sights, catch 22, catch22's, catch-22's, catch22, catch 22's, peccabilities, daintinesses, suscepts, self-condemnation, malefactions, self-reproach, sinfulness, criminalities, Malefaction, criminality, blameworthiness, incompleteness, in effectualnesses, in-capacity, skimpinesses, in-competences, un-fitness, in-efficiency, un suitablenesses, in effectivenesses, un-fitnesses, in-adequacies, in efficacies, in-aptness, inaptnesses, in effectiveness, inadequatenesses, in efficacy, in-adequacy, faultinesses, in capacity, in-adequatenesses, in-competence, in adequatenesses, un fitnesses, un-suitableness, in-capacities, un-suitablenesses, in-effectiveness, in-efficacy, un suitableness, in capacities, in-efficiencies, in-competency, in-effectivenesses, in-effectualness, in adequacy, in adequacies, defectivenesses, in competency, in-competencies, in aptness, in adequateness, in competence, in effectualness, in-adequateness, un fitness, in-efficacies, in efficiency, in-aptnesses, in competencies, in-effectualnesses, in efficiencies, in competences, in aptnesses, diseasednesses, dis-ease, in-dispositions, dis orders, dis-orders, dis eases, dis order, in dispositions, dis-eases, ailings, un wellnesses, un-health, un health, un-healthiness, un-healthinesses, un-wellness, in-disposition, unwellnesses, dis-order, un healthinesses, ill healths, un healths, flus, un-wellnesses, dis ease, un-healths, sicklinesses, un wellness, unhealthinesses, in disposition, un healthiness, unhealths, in-solvencies, in-solvency, in solvency, in solvencies, in-substantialities, in-substantiality, in substantialities, in substantiality, goofups, screw ups, screw-ups, goof ups, goofup, goof-ups, blind spot, vice, miscarriage, misfortune, error, non feasances, non feasance, non-feasances, in advertencies, over-looks, in-advertences, excludings, in advertences, pretermissions, noninclusions, dis regards, non inclusion, in advertence, non-inclusions, disregardances, dis-regard, dis-regards, leaving outs, over looking, non inclusions, over-look, in advertency, with holdings, dis regard, preteritions, with-holdings, over look, with-holding, in-advertence, ignorings, slightings, with holding, in-advertency, over looks, cutting outs, over-looking, in-advertencies, passing overs, overlookings, rottennesses, re-creance, re-creances, re creance, re creances, un-soundness, un-soundnesses, un soundness, un soundnesses, un successes, un-success, un success, un-successes, un successfulnesses, un-successfulness, un successfulness, un-successfulnesses, invalidity, faintness, inconstancies, invalidities, sore point, vitiation, inconstancy, weak-point, Blundering, losing, Floundering, Flunking, Flopping, busting, falling, Collapsing, stumbling, faltering, disregarding, Neglecting, Forgetting, Ignoring, overlooking, smitten

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