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failed over

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

Meaning of fail over

Verb

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

  1. To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component.
    • If the Web server crashes, we can fail over to the spare in less than a second.

Questions about failed over

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

Words near failed over in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: failed over (page history and authors); fail over (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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