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How to sign: fail to do something; leave something undone
"She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account";
Similiar / Same: fail
Within this category: choke, default, miss, muff, strike out
How to sign: leave undone or leave out
"How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten";
Similiar / Same: pretermit, omit, leave out, overlook, overleap, miss, drop
Within this category: forget, jump
How to sign: failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
Similiar / Same: negligence, nonperformance, carelessness
Categories: nonaccomplishment, nonachievement
Within this category: comparative negligence, concurrent negligence, contributory negligence, criminal negligence, dereliction, evasion, neglect of duty
How to sign: the state of something that has been unused and neglected
"the house was in a terrible state of neglect";
Similiar / Same: disuse
Categories: declination, decline
Within this category: omission
