Retreating and Stay

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Stay is an antonym for retreating in go away topic.

Nearby Words: retreat, retreated

Stay verb - To continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time.

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Retreating is an antonym for stay.

Nearby Words: stayed, staying

Rather than dying, characters are stated to be "retreating", but this again works just like death in most MMOs - you have to "retreat" all the way back to a respawn point, and you stay in the same position (in case someone wants to heal you) until you respawn.

Source: Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp"

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Stay and Retreating. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/retreating/stay

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