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stealth nerf

stealth nerf verb: to cripple or weaken an element of a video game (such as a character, a weapon, or a spell) without announcing the change to the player base.

Verb

stealth nerf (third-person singular simple present stealth nerfs, present participle stealth nerfing, simple past and past participle stealth nerfed)

  1. (slang, transitive) To cripple or weaken an element of a video game (such as a character, a weapon, or a spell) without announcing the change to the player base.

Noun

stealth nerf (plural stealth nerfs)

  1. (slang) The weakening or worsening of an element of a video game (a character, a weapon, a spell, etc.) in an update without the change being announced to the players of the game.

Forms of stealth nerf

Verb
third-person singular presentstealth nerfs
present participlestealth nerfing
past participlestealth nerfed
paststealth nerfed
Noun
pluralstealth nerfs

Questions about stealth nerf

What does stealth nerf mean?
Stealth nerf means to cripple or weaken an element of a video game (such as a character, a weapon, or a spell) without announcing the change to the player base.
What part of speech is stealth nerf?
Stealth nerf can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of stealth nerf?
The past tense of stealth nerf is stealth nerfed.

Words near stealth nerf in the dictionary

  1. stealth fighter
  2. stealth fighters
  3. stealth game
  4. stealth games
  5. stealth mode
  6. stealth nerf
  7. stealth nerfed
  8. stealth nerfing
  9. stealth nerfs
  10. stealth tax
  11. stealth taxation

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