Failure
Knocks
Failure and knocks are semantically related in displeasure topic. You can use "Failure" instead a noun "Knocks".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Failure normally just knocks off a bit of your health bar and forces you to try again.
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Critical Existence Failure: Averted for players, as reaching 0 Hit Points puts you in Fatal and only an attack that knocks them down kills them.
Source: Video Game / Grand Chase - Then he knocks four times and the Doctor has to take a fatal dose of radiation to save someone from a mundane failure of engineering forethought, says a final goodbye to all of the new-series companions, and dies in a fiery cataclysm of regeneration.
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