tanking

Going down hard

Tanking means failing badly or declining rapidly.

A stock tanks when it crashes; a movie tanks when it bombs at the box office; a team tanks when it loses badly: The company's shares tanked after the earnings report.

In gaming and sports, tanking also means deliberately losing or performing poorly, often to gain a strategic advantage like a better draft pick.

In video games, tanking refers to a player who absorbs damage to protect teammates—drawing enemy fire while others attack.

decline

plummeting

Falling steeply and fast

crashingColliding with force
collapsingFalling inward suddenly
nosedivingDescending steeply and rapidly

plunging · freefalling · dropping · sinking · tumbling · spiraling · slumping · declining · cratering · bottoming-out

gaming

aggro

Hostile, provocative conduct

threatIndication of potential harm
mitigationReduction of severity
dungeonSubterranean prison chamber

raid · boss · healer · DPS · pulling · mob · shield · taunt · cooldown · defense

failure

flopping

Falling loosely, without control

bombingAttack with explosives
failingFlaw in one's nature
flounderingStruggling clumsily, failing

underperforming · cratering · busting · choking · imploding · collapse · bankruptcy · debacle · disaster · flop

storage

reservoir

Large water storage basin

containerThing for storing items
vatLarge liquid container
cisternWater storage chamber

silo · drum · barrel · vessel · cylinder · holding · capacity · volume · fill · empty

military

armored

Protected by metal covering

battalionMid-sized military unit
cavalryMounted military force
artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons

infantry · turret · treads · tracked · blitz · warfare · platoon · brigade · deployment · maneuver

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