Fail and Handed

Opposite meaning words

Fail verb - To stop functioning.

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Handed is an antonym for fail.

Nearby Words: failure, failing, failed

Handed adjective - Having or involving the use of hands.

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Fail is an antonym for handed in topics: touch, give, furnish, augment, pass possession to.

Nearby Words: hand, handy, handing

Vanessa Michael Munroe: In book two, The Innocent, Munroe is about to be gang-raped by two men, who fail to heed her warnings and get their asses handed to them on a platinum platter as a result.

Source: I Warned You aka: I Told You So
Averted in Aeon Entelechy Evangelion, where Shinji while piloting Unit-01 tries to use a High-Velocity Assault Rifle one handed (the other hand was busted) and fail.

Source: Law of Inverse Recoil
The Simpsons episode where Flanders starts the left-handed store; he and Homer share a wishbone, and Homer wishes for the store to fail.

Source: Make a Wish

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