Bail
Bail verb - To leave a place often for another.
Usage example: after two hours of that boring party, we were ready to bail
Close
Close verb - To position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening.
Both words in one sentence
- The goal is to manage these various catastrophes and survive long enough for help to arrive (or find some scuba gear and bail out once rescue is close enough; a player who does this wins if the remaining players die, but loses if they last until rescue).
Source: Disaster Relief Game
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