failure
/ˈfeɪl.jəɹ/ noun B1- State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
- A condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life. · heart failure· congestive heart failure
- Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done.
- An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure, has failed at something or incapable of success.
- Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown.
- Bankruptcy.
Plural failures
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While the count smiled at hearing this song, which made him lose sight of Andrea in the recollection of Benedetto, Madame Danglars was boasting to Monte Cristo of her husband’s strength of mind, who that very morning had lost three or four hundred thousand francs by a failure at Milan.
Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.
Then, in spite of the failure of his first search, he began a second, after having told Gaetano to roast one of the two kids.
Is it not worth 300,000 francs to save our father’s name from the chances of evil fortune and failure?’
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