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authorization, dispensation, sanction, licence, prerogative,
privilege, right, permission, liberty: The government has the
faculty to judge treasonable acts.
fad n. craze, mania, rage, fashion, trend, fancy, vogue: Do you
remember the hula-hoop fad?
fade v. 1 (grow) dim or pale, grow faint, cloud (over), dull;
bleach, whiten, etiolate, wash out, blanch or blench, discolour:
The scene faded in the distance. Look how the sun has faded the
curtains! 2 droop, wither, decline, die out or away, perish,
ebb, flag, wane, wilt, waste away, sag, diminish, dwindle,
languish, deteriorate, decay, shrivel, peter out or away: As he
aged, his lust for life faded.
fag v. 1 Often, fag out. exhaust, weary, tire (out), fatigue, wear
out, jade, Colloq Brit knacker, US poop: I am completely fagged
out from studying all night.
--n. 2 Brit bore, nuisance, drag, chore, pain: It's a bit of a
fag having to fetch water from the garden. 3 servant, menial,
flunkey, drudge, lackey, underling: The seniors used to have
fags to clean their shoes. 4 See homosexual, 1, below. 5
cigarette, smoke, Colloq butt, cig(gy), weed, coffin-nail,
cancer stick, Old-fashioned gasper: Got a fag?
fail v. 1 not succeed, be unsuccessful, miss, miscarry, misfire,
fall short (of), fall flat, fall through, falter, be (found)
lacking or wanting, be defective, be deficient, be or prove
inadequate, come to grief or naught or nothing, go wrong, abort,
meet with disaster, founder, run aground, Colloq flop, fizzle
(out), go up in smoke, flunk: Guy Fawkes's plot failed utterly.
Gloria failed her history examination. 2 let down, disappoint,
forsake, desert, abandon, neglect, ignore, slight: I was really
counting on Mary, but she failed me. 3 decline, peter out,
dwindle, diminish, wane, deteriorate, weaken, decay, fade or die
(out or away), disappear, flag, ebb, sink, languish, give out;
gutter, go out: His health is failing. The light failed,
leaving us in darkness. 4 go bankrupt, go out of business, go
under, go into receivership, become insolvent, close up shop,
close up or down, cease operation(s), Brit go to the wall, US
file for Chapter Eleven, Colloq fold (up), go bust or broke, US
drown in red ink: According to the statistics, hundreds of