Backfires and Starts

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Starts and backfires are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Starts" instead a verb "Backfires".

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Backfires and starts are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Backfires" instead a verb "Starts".

Villainous Breakdown: When his plan to break Jade to his will backfires and starts killing her instead, Lung starts cracking, and then breaks completely when her minions show up and start mowing down his defenses.

Source: Fan Fic / Queen of All Oni
This backfires where a starving Dog starts to hallucinate his surroundings as food (he envisions his dancemates as pizza pies and drum sticks as chicken legs).

Source: Western Animation / CatDog
It backfires horribly in that Lizzie starts sleeping with Chaz while still engaged to Luke.

Source: Literature / Queen of Babble

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