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failing out

failing out is the present participle and gerund 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 failing out

What is failing out the present participle and gerund of?
Failing out is the present participle and gerund of fail out.

Words near failing out in the dictionary

  1. failing
  2. failing at life
  3. failing closed
  4. failing fast
  5. failing open
  6. failing out
  7. failing over
  8. failing safe
  9. failing that
  10. failing up
  11. failing up the ladder

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Adapted from Wiktionary: failing 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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