Duck
Duck verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Increase
Increase verb - To make greater in size, amount, or number.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- One of the questions used in Darkwing Duck to overload the brain of a super-genius who used a special ray gun to increase his IQ when he had a clear head.
Source: Train Problem - In the DuckTales episode "Where No Duck Has Gone Before", To increase the budget for Courage of the Cosmos as part of a way of reinventing it, Scrooge has Gyro build a new spaceship that he wants to be as realistic as possible.
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