Definition

1. Verb:

   • To fail, to be unsuccessful: To not achieve a desired goal, result, or purpose.
   • To be defeated, to lose: To be overcome by an opponent in a conflict, competition, or battle.

2. Noun:

   • Failure, defeat: The state or fact of not achieving success or of being defeated. An instance of this.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Kế hoạch của họ đã thất bại. (Their plan failed.)
  • Đội chủ nhà thất bại với tỉ số 0-2. (The home team was defeated with a score of 0-2.)
• Noun:
  • Họ coi thất bại là bài học quý giá. (They consider failure a valuable lesson.)
  • Sau nhiều thất bại, cuối cùng anh ấy cũng thành công. (After many failures, he finally succeeded.)

Advanced Usage

• "Làm thất bại": To foil, to thwart, to cause something to fail.
  • Cảnh sát đã làm thất bại âm mưu khủng bố. (The police foiled the terrorist plot.)

Variants and Related Words

• Thất bại hoàn toàn / Thảm bại (n): A complete failure, a fiasco, a debacle.
  • Vụ mua bán đó là một thảm bại về tài chính. (That deal was a financial debacle.)

Synonyms

• Verb: To fail, to flop, to be defeated, to lose.
• Noun: Failure, defeat, loss, setback, fiasco.

Related Idioms

• Thất bại là mẹ thành công: Failure is the mother of success. (A proverb meaning that success often comes after learning from previous failures.)
  • Đừng nản lòng, hãy nhớ thất bại là mẹ thành công. (Don't be discouraged, remember that failure is the mother of success.)

verb

1. to be defeated, to lose to fail, to be unsuccessful