Increase
Increase verb - To make greater in size, amount, or number.
Prevent
Prevent verb - To keep from happening by taking action in advance.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- These either increase the Toughness of a creature, or prevent damage to a creature or player in some way.
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To prevent abuse of single tactician like Koumei in UX, tacticians are given highly specific tactical bonuses, and their bonuses gradually increase on the field as you taking kill counts.
Source: Video Game / Super Robot Wars BX - Pastafarianism claims that pirates prevent global warming, as the number of pirates is decreasing while temperatures increase, as a parody of this type of thinking to demonstrate the flaw in logic.
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