Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Jump
Jump verb - To propel oneself upward or forward into the air.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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This can easily lead to a situation where one thinks that the wall jumping randomly works, as if you press toward the wall at the peak of your jump, you'll double jump and fail, but one-tenth of a second later, you will get the wall jump.
Source: Some Dexterity Required - In The Living Daylights, there's a car jump to escape some pursuing Czech guards, some of whom try and fail to emulate the jump in order to follow him.
Source: Ramp Jump -
Several soldiers then jump out from under the cake and attempt to assassinate the queen of the moon, Dianna Soriel, though they fail and are forced to escape instead.
Source: Jumping Out of a Cake
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Jump and Fail. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fail/jump
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