Failing and Needed

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Failing adjective - Below acceptable in performance.

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Needed and failing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Needed" instead an adjective "Failing".

Nearby Words: fail, failure, failed

Needed adjective - Impossible to do without.

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Failing and needed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Failing" instead an adjective "Needed".

Nearby Words: need, needs, needy, needful, needing

In the First Doctor story "The Celestial Toymaker", William Hartnell's health was failing at that point and he needed a few weeks off.

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Jacques done so because his wife and child badly needed money and his health was failing.

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Rin, trying (and failing) to apply knowledge of VCRs to a Blu-Ray recorder, is left in a blind panic and requires Archer to explain to her all that she needed to do and why.

Source: Anime / Carnival Phantasm

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