(transitive, idiomatic) Of a person: to be incapable of describing something with words, especially due to fear, shock, or surprise.

simple past tense and past participle of words fail someone.

present participle of words fail someone.

Dated form of play on words.

plural of play upon words

plural of Humpty Dumpty word

plural of compound predicate word

(figuratively) to think carefully about what one will say.

(computational linguistics) A bag of words comprised of the words in the vicinity of a specific target.

To be forced to retract a prior statement after it has been shown to be disproven; to take back what one has said. / To speak at a low volume due to uncertainty about one's speech; to mumble.