FAILING

failing|failure. Failing, or Failure, n. a becoming insolvent, deficiency, defect, omission, fault

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Fail″ing, n. 1. 1. A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing.
And ever in her mind she cast about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson. 2. 2. The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.
Syn. — See Fault.