strike out set out on a course of action; "He struck out on his own"
fall pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work"
shipwreck destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked"
fail -
stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death"
change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
go down,
crash be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
burn out,
blow out,
blow melt, break, or become otherwise unusable; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew"
misfire fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired"
malfunction,
misfunction fail to function or function improperly; "the coffee maker malfunctioned"
fail -
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"
pass travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"
pass judgment,
evaluate,
judge form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?""We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"
fail -
fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"
worsen,
decline grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"
fail -
disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"
disappoint,
let down fail to meet the hopes or expectations of; "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage"
fail -
become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"
fail -
be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"
