Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Undo
Undo verb - To deprive of courage or confidence.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In a variation, the Ancients, themselves, realized that what they were doing was wrong, and so they created a fail-safe that was programmed to undo what they had wrought.
Source: Götterdämmerung -
His efforts fail and end up triggering a curse that will eventually kill him unless Nanami can find a way to undo it.
Source: Pinocchio Syndrome -
A single psychotherapy roll to undo a handful of stress damage takes eight hours or longer, and can potentially fail very harshly.
Source: Tabletop Game / Eclipse Phase
Cite this Source
Undo and Fail. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fail/undo
Fail & Undo. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/fail/undo>.
Undo or Fail. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fail/undo.
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