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Failed vs Mailed - What's the difference?

failed | mailed |

As verbs the difference between failed and mailed

is that failed is past tense of fail while mailed is past tense of mail.

As an adjective mailed is

armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.

failed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fail)
  • Derived terms

    * unfailed

    Anagrams

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    mailed

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mail)
  • Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.
  • (lb) Spotted.
  • * 1888 , Frederick Albion Ober, A Boy's Adventures in the West Indies , page 169:
  • from blossom of lime to perfumed bloom of acacia — darts the humming-bird, his coat of mailed feathers glowing like a gem.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mail)
  • Anagrams

    * *