Fail and Resume

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Fail verb - To stop functioning.

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

Nearby Words: failure, failing, failed

Resume verb - To begin again or return to after an interruption.

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Fail and resume are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fail" instead a verb "Resume".

Nearby Words: resumption, resumed, resuming

attack	fail attack	resume attack
course	fail course	resume course
series	fail series	resume series
time	fail time	resume time
Other words: challenge, command, game, fight, battle, mission, quest, ways, attempts.

Occasionally note most commonly when the rains resume after one of the rare periods of drought these connections fail, and the resulting "treevalanche" clears an entire section of the cliffs.

Source: Literal Cliffhanger
Furthermore Picard isn't even planning to use them unless the Caeliar fail and the Borg resume their genocidal attack.

Source: Literature / Star Trek: Destiny
Having butted heads with their allies once too often and stormed off to work on their own, they usually fail spectacularly and have to be rescued, after which the Aesop has been taught and they can resume kicking ass.

Source: Badass in Distress

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