Attacking
Attacking adjective - Disposed to attack.
Soak and attacking are semantically related. in assault physically topic. In some cases you can use "Soak" instead a verb "Attacking".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- They are crazy, but not stupid: knowing they are attacking an Assassin, they recruit a platoon of "meat-shields" to take the brunt of the attack and soak up casualties, promising them fifty dollars a head after the fight.
Source: The Pawns Go First -
However, Voss's minions are capable of attacking the heroes so it's less like Voss is using them as a shield and more like Voss simply standing behind them while still allowing them to soak the hits for him like meat shields until they die and Voss has to fight on his own.
Source: Human Shield
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