failed
failed / fāld/ • adj. 1. (of an undertaking or a relationship) not achieving its end or not lasting; unsuccessful: a failed coup attempt. ∎ (of a person) unsuccessful in a particular activity, esp. not good enough to make a living by it: a failed writer.2. (of a mechanism) not functioning properly; broken-down: an aircraft with a failed engine.
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