Cut and Fail

Cut

Cut verb - To penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife).

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Fail and cut are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fail" instead a verb "Cut".

Nearby Words: cutting, cutter, cutout

Fail verb - To stop functioning.

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Cut and fail are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cut" instead a verb "Fail".

Nearby Words: failure, failing, failed

power	cut power	fail power
guy	cut guy	fail guy
people	cut people	fail people
part	cut part	fail part
Other words: check, class, number, way, times, ways.

After spending several hours in the past, he starts climbing into the portal "window", only for the diesel-powered generator to fail, causing the portal to close and cut off the guy's legs.

Source: Portal Cut
Then it turns into an epic fail for Kid when he passes out with them...after noticing they cut off part of his hair, making it asymmetrical.

Source: Epic Fail / Anime and Manga
So essentially, Rapture (a place cut off from the violent and bickering world) was doomed to fail because of its isolationism; if they had sold to the world instead of each other, they wouldn't have devolved into a bickering civil war.

Source: Cut Lex Luthor a Check

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