Fail and Start

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Fail

Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Usage example: my video camera failed just as I was about to shoot the big moment
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Start is an antonym for fail in lose money topic.
Nearby Words: failure, failing, failed

Start

Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).
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Fail is an antonym for start.
Nearby Words: started, startled, starting, starter, startup
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Common collocations

attack fail attack start attack
people fail people start people
job fail job start job
series fail series start series
Other words: stage, end, time, way, level, school, game, fight, battle, song, mission, quest, times.

Both words in one sentence

  • Soap Within a Show In the end they fail and start watching a Home and Away parody instead.
    Source: Soap Within a Show
  • Even though the plans was doomed to fail from the very start, Leeroy Jenkins as a trope is still synonymous with wrecking plans by being reckless.
    Source: Unbuilt Trope
  • In more rare cases, sometimes they fail, sometimes they fail and die, and sometimes they even start the war in the first place.
    Source: Avoiding the Great War
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