Conquer
Conquer verb - To achieve a victory over.
Usage example: love conquers all, or so romance novels would have us believe
Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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He sends a massive force of Parademons to attack Earth in the 30th Century; when they fail, the survivors jump back in time 100 years and try again, and so on until they conquer the planet.
- An alliance of alien races attempt to conquer Earth to stomp out the metahuman threat, but fail.
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On Invader Zim, Tak wants to conquer Earth before Zim, since Zim was the one who made her fail her military exam and sent her to work as a janitor (on Planet Dirt) for fifty years.
Source: Best Served Cold
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