Cannot
Engage
Engage verb - To hold the attention of.
Both words in one sentence
- Bloodthirster is especially bad, since he cannot walk down the stairs to engage your team in melee combat, and he cannot fly despite having wings.
Source: Anti-Climax Boss - The fey in the Wicked Lovely series cannot lie, but they more often than not engage in 'creative truth telling', as per being The Fair Folk.
Source: Cannot Tell a Lie -
However to ensure the GameShark cannot escape, Segata elects to engage the entity in eternal combat leaving him trapped in its dimension for the time being.
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