Die
Knock out
Knock out verb - To use up all the physical energy of.
Both terms in one sentence
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While the typical army units die from single hits, you can target the Ogre tank's weapons to knock out its offensive capabilities, or take out its treads so it can't move.
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Even trying to knock out these defenses sometimes proved humiliatingly useless such as the concentrated suicide and conventional attack on a mere destroyer, the USS Laffey, which won the battle with the help of two air waves of The Cavalry to become "The Ship That Would Not Die."
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