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failed out

failed out is the simple past and past participle of fail out.

Meaning of fail out

Verb

fail out (third-person singular simple present fails out, present participle failing out, simple past and past participle failed out)

  1. (informal, transitive) To be forced to leave a school or university because of unsatisfactory grades.

Questions about failed out

What is failed out the simple past and past participle of?
Failed out is the simple past and past participle of fail out.

Words near failed out in the dictionary

  1. failed at life
  2. failed back syndrome
  3. failed closed
  4. failed fast
  5. failed open
  6. failed out
  7. failed over
  8. failed safe
  9. failed state
  10. failed states
  11. failed supernova

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Adapted from Wiktionary: failed out (page history and authors); fail out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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