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face tank

face tank verb: to absorb damage directly, especially in an unsophisticated or unskillful way.

Verb

face tank (third-person singular simple present face tanks, present participle face tanking, simple past and past participle face tanked)

  1. To absorb damage directly, especially in an unsophisticated or unskillful way.

Forms of face tank

third-person singular presentface tanks
present participleface tanking
past participleface tanked
pastface tanked

Origin of face tank

From tank (“attract or resist damage”) and face (“the player character as opposed to minions”), the idea being that to face tank is to accept enemy attacks without any attempt to deflect their damage to non-player entities; thus, to simply absorb them directly.

Questions about face tank

What does face tank mean?
Face tank means to absorb damage directly, especially in an unsophisticated or unskillful way.
What part of speech is face tank?
Face tank is a verb.
What is the past tense of face tank?
The past tense of face tank is face tanked.

Words near face tank in the dictionary

  1. face reveals
  2. face shield
  3. face shields
  4. face swap
  5. face swaps
  6. face tank
  7. face tanked
  8. face tanking
  9. face tanks
  10. face that only a mother could love
  11. face that would stop a clock

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