Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Overpower
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- If you fail to do so, they overpower you instead.
Source: Smashing Survival -
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: In the Final Battle, when Simon and the eponymous mech fail to overpower the Anti-Spiral's Humongous Mecha, he just takes the smaller Gurren Lagann mecha and boards the Anti-Spiral home planet (which is on the mecha's forehead), finishing off the Anti-Spiral himself.
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