engine failure

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   engine does not run

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Questions about engine failure

What does engine failure mean?

engine failure means "engine does not run".

Is engine failure a common word?

engine failure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.