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fails out

fails out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 fails out

What is fails out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fails out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fail out.

Words near fails out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fails 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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