Accumulate
Accumulate verb - To become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number.
Fail and accumulate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fail" instead a verb "Accumulate".
Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Accumulate and fail are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Accumulate" instead a verb "Fail".
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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After that, they still only die if they accumulate three or more degrees of failure on a DC 15 Fortitude check, or get finished off again by another source of damage they fail to resist.
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Once damage has had some time to accumulate, and the daring plan has had a chance to either work impressively or fail spectacularly, one of the ships will usually find it prudent to invoke the Thirty-Sixth Stratagem and attempt a Hyperspeed Escape.
Source: Standard Starship Scuffle -
Pray to The God you don't get a flood of infected aliens or get an endless supply of low-skill greys with no decently-skilled ones, or else you'll invariably accumulate 11 deaths and fail the mission ridiculously fast.
Source: Luck-Based Mission
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