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Spell check of failing
Correct spelling: failing
Synonyms:
stumbling, flopping, helplessness, weak, defect, barring, collapsing, unhealthy, feeble, unsuccessful, ignoring, deficiency, inadequacy, neglecting, want, at, fragile, regressing, flunk, infectious, disregarding, unsatisfactory, among, dying, falling, better, sin, declining, floundering, faltering, infirmity, flaw, worse, shortcoming, aging, impuissance, busting, frail, regressive, faint, weak point, unfit, Achilles' heel, blundering, aboard, from, amid, weakness, demerit, flunking, losing, overlooking, foible, fatally, retrograde, goner, imperfection, retrogressive, vice, help, fault, frailty, forgetting, against, deteriorating, dereliction, failed, sick, ill, into, unwell.
Antonyms:
merit, probity, pass, integrity, perfection, excellence, passing, goodness, righteousness, virtue, rectitude, qualifying, morality, satisfactory.
Examples of usage:
1) I shall never forget the mournful group before me, in itself an awful picture of despair, of man's ambition failing just as victory is within his grasp. - "My Attainment of the Pole", Frederick A. Cook.
2) " That there is a possibility of my failing seems sufficient," he said. - "The Greater Power", Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton.
3) But for the nervous energy which kept me up, I know not how I should have borne this long starvation; as it was, my strength was failing rapidly. - "A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas", Fanny Loviot.