Soak and Well

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Soak verb - To wet thoroughly with liquid.

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Well and soak are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Well" instead a verb "Soak".

Nearby Words: soaked, soaking, soaker

Well verb - Come up, as of a liquid.

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Soak and well are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Soak" instead a verb "Well".

Nearby Word: welled

Both soak up punishment about as well as a fortress would, and can destroy anything short of another Battlestation or Strato Destroyer in seconds.

Source: Video Game / Nintendo Wars aka: Advance Wars
As you may suspect, it's useful on units that soak up attacks well and suicidal on ones that can't.

Source: Video Game / Fire Emblem Tellius
As well, really strong shields on aircraft can soak a good amount of plasma shots and the AA plasma cannons don't have as high a rate of fire as the ED AA guns.

Source: Video Game / Earth 2150

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