Fail and Survive

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Fail

Fail verb - To stop functioning.
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Survive is an antonym for fail.
Nearby Words: failure, failing, failed

Survive

Survive verb - To continue to operate or to meet one's needs.
Usage example: some old-world customs still survive in modern-day America
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Fail is an antonym for survive.
Nearby Words: survival, surviving, survivor, survivorship
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Common collocations

attack fail attack survive attack
thanks fail thanks survive thanks
attempt fail attempt survive attempt
event fail event survive event
Other words: series, end, time, way, school, game, fight, battle, mission, times, events, attempts.

Both words in one sentence

  • Strangelove instead of them stopping the attack that would set off the doomsday weapon, they fail and a small amount of the population has to flee to underground bunkers in order to survive.
    Source: You Are Too Late
  • They all require him to survive the main storyline but fail to rescue his son, Shaun.
    Source: Driven To Suicide / Video Games
  • No-One Could Survive That In a subversion, the driver actually does fail to survive that.
    Source: No-One Could Survive That
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