Defence and Shell

Defence

Defence noun - The act of defending someone or something against attack or injury.

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Shell and defence are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Shell" with "Defence", this nouns are similar.

Shell noun - Something that encloses another thing especially to protect it.

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Defence and shell are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defence" instead a noun "Shell".

Nearby Words: shelling, shelled

physical	physical defence	physical shell
outer	outer defence	outer shell
entire	entire defence	entire shell
new	new defence	new shell
Other adjectives: last, magical.

If you hit him with the Magnet Mine, his shell flies off, causing him to lose his only method of defence and causing him to focus on trying to reclaim it over attacking you...which you can prolong indefinitely by knocking the shell around.

Source: Removable Shell
Emotion Bomb: Mediochre's main defence against psychomancers turns out to be a mental shell of guilt about everyone he's ever watched die.

Source: Literature / Mediochre Q Seth Series
Like the durian, they have a hard shell (good defence and Steel typing), as well as Spikes of Doom that damages anything using a physical contact move on it.

Source: Fundamentally Funny Fruit

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