Many people will seek credit for success, but few will accept responsibility for failure.

(computing) The restoration of a system in a state of failover back to its original state (before the failure occurred).

plural of failer

One who fails.

Loss of the load-carrying capacity of a component or member within a structure or of the structure itself. Structural failure is initiated when the material in a structure is stressed to its strength limit, thus causing fracture or excessive deformations.

(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of fail

(pediatrics) Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers. / (medicine, chiefly geriatrics) Abnormal weight loss, malaise.

(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of fail

plural of heart-failure

Alternative form of heart failure