English - English (Wordnet) dictionary
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Verb
- stop operating or functioning
- The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
- The engine failed on the way to town
- her eyesight went after the accident
- prove insufficient
- The water supply for the town failed after a long drought
- give to several people
- The teacher handed out the exams
- give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.
- The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits