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===verb transitive===

with non-personal subject: [[prose|P.]] [[ἐκλείπω]], [[ἐκλείπειν]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ἐπιλείπειν]].

[[leave in the lurch]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[λείπω]], [[λείπειν]], [[προλείπω]], [[προλείπειν]], [[καταλείπω]], [[καταλείπειν]], [[προϊέναι]] (or mid.), [[προδιδόναι]].

[[you fail your friends in time of trouble]]: [[verse|V.]] [[ἀπαυδᾶς ἐν κακοῖς φίλοισι σοῖς]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Andromache]]'' 87).

[[when he saw his eyesight failing him]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἐπειδὴ ᾔσθετο… τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν αὐτὸν προδίδοντα]] ([[Demosthenes|Dem.]] 1239).

===verb intransitive===

Of persons, [[meet with ill-success]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἁμαρτάνειν]], [[σφάλλεσθαι]], [[ἐξαμαρτάνειν]], [[πταίειν]], [[prose|P.]] [[ἀποτυγχάνειν]], [[διαμαρτάνειν]], [[verse|V.]] [[ἀμπλακεῖν]] (2nd aor.), [[ἀπαμπλακεῖν]] (2nd aor.).

[[be unlucky]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[δυστυχεῖν]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ἀτυχεῖν]].

of things, not to [[succeed]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[κακῶς χωρεῖν]], [[οὐ προχωρεῖν]].

[[his plan will succeed and mine will fail]]: [[verse|V.]] [[τὰ τοῦδε μὲν πεπραγμέν' ἔσται τἀμὰ δ' ἡμαρτημένα]] ([[Sophocles]], ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' 620).

[[give out]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἐκλείπω]], [[ἐκλείπειν]], [[ἐλλείπειν]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[λείπω]], [[λείπειν]] (rare [[prose|P.]]), [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ἐπιλείπειν]].

[[go bankrupt]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀνασκευάζεσθαι]]; see [[bankrupt]].

[[flag]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀπειπεῖν]], [[παρίεσθαι]]; see [[flag]].

[[my limbs fail]]: [[verse|V.]] [[λύεται δέ μου μέλη]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Hecuba]]'' 438).

[[bent spine and failing knee]]: [[verse|V.]] [[διπλῆ ἄκανθα καὶ παλίρροπον γόνυ]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Electra]]'' 492) 

[[fail]] (to do a thing): [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[οὐ δύναμαι]], [[οὐ δύνασθαι]] (infin.), [[οὐκ ἔχειν]] (infin.).

[[fail in]], [[not succeed in]]: [[prose|P.]] [[διαμαρτάνειν]] (gen.), [[ἀποτυγχάνειν]] (gen.), [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἁμαρτάνειν]] (gen.). [[σφάλλεσθαι]] (gen.), [[ἀποσφάλλεσθαι]] (gen.), [[verse|V.]] [[ἀμπλακεῖν]] (gen.) (2nd aor.).

[[the gloom of night is dangerous to fail in]]: [[verse|V.]] [[ἐνδυστυχῆσαι δεινὸν εὐφρόνης κνέφας]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Phoenissae]]'' 727).

[[be wanting in]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἐλλείπειν]] (gen.), [[ἀπολείπεσθαι]] (gen.), [[verse|V.]] [[λείπεσθαι]] (gen.).
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