Fail and Tended

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Fail verb - To stop functioning.

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Tended is an antonym for fail.

Nearby Words: failure, failing, failed

Definitions of Fail not found.

Fail is an antonym for tended in care for topic.

Nearby Word: tending

Since these plans tended to fail, the writers eventually resorted to an Enemy Mine plot every other episode to avoid Villain Decay.

Source: Big Bad / Western Animation
Springtime for Hitler: "Hospitaliky" features Popeye and Bluto trying to get themselves injured so they can be tended on by Nurse Olive, only to constantly fail due to dumb luck or simply because they're just that indestructible.

Source: Comic Strip / Popeye
He would interrupt conversations to talk about completely unrelated things that he had an opinion about, he simply cannot understand why everyone wanted nothing to do with him, and most damningly his Leeroy Jenkins tendencies in combat tended to fail most of the time.

Source: Franchise / Sentou Yousei Yukikaze

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