Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
To collapse and fail are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To collapse" with "Fail", this terms are similar.
To collapse
Fail and to collapse are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fail" instead a verb phrase "To collapse".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- They hope to find these in the innermost section of the vault beyond a massive blast door that they fail to breach, but trigger a trap that causes the vault to collapse.
Source: Literature / Andromeda Nebula -
And You Thought It Would Fail: In-Universe, the rival human farmers were expecting the whole thing of the farm run by animals to collapse in no time.
Source: Literature / Animal Farm -
You Fail Economics Forever: Apparently, Reika is so wealthy that when she makes one errant stock market decision she causes the entire Japanese economy to collapse!
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