[
  {
    "word": "fail",
    "phonetic": "/fe\u026al/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/fe\u026al/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/fail-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1669302",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Poor quality; substandard workmanship.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The project was full of fail."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A failure (something incapable of success)",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A failing grade in an academic examination.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To be unsuccessful.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Throughout my life, I have always failed."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The truck failed to start."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To neglect.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "After running five minutes, the engine failed."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I failed English last year."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To miss attaining; to lose.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The crops failed last year."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "A sick man fails."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To perish; to die; used of a person.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To err in judgment; to be mistaken.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "fall on one's face",
          "flunk"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "succeed"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "That is a failure.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fail"
    ]
  },
  {
    "word": "fail",
    "phonetic": "/fe\u026al/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/fe\u026al/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/fail-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1669302",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A piece of turf cut from grassland.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fail"
    ]
  }
]