• v.
    ⦿disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
    lexical concept
  • His children failed him in the crisis
  • His sense of smell failed him this time
  • His strength finally failed him

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:betray
  2. enl:fail
wn:interlingual indexili:i30728

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelbetrayfail