heart failure meaning

Definition of heart failure

1. inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions

   Synonyms: coronary failure

   Type of: heart disease, failure

   Kinds: congestive heart failure, heart attack

heart failure in a sentence

• He died quite suddenly of heart failure.
• Tom died of heart failure on October twentieth at the age of 93.
• Tom has congestive heart failure.

How to pronounce heart failure

heart failure is pronounced /hɑːt ˈfeɪljə/ in British English and /hɑrt ˈfeɪljɚ/ in American English. It has 3 syllables.