life force
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- noun
- Jargon
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energía vital
- In the game, losing too much life force means your character will no longer be able to fight.
- drain the life force
So they slowly take away your life force while it's like keeping you there.
- So they slowly take away your life force while it's like keeping you there.
Examples
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And because they're alive, it's like sending them life force in a vase.
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You're releasing the life force into your brain.
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So they slowly take away your life force while it's like keeping you there.
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Sex does drain our life force.
Blog text (9) -
You're releasing the life force into your brain.
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If the ghost player grabs and sucks the life force out of all players, that person wins.
Blog text (15) -
They sustain themselves by consuming the life force of a living creature.
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And because they're alive, it's like sending them life force in a vase.
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"I can feel the life force being drained from my body," Cristina said to me after experiencing chemotherapy.
Fiction book (1997) -
And if it feels in enticing to want to cultivate, curate the the profundity of this life force energy, then I might recommend like a a teeny fast.
Synonyms
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9.8
Old idea that a force that is not physical makes living things grow
A life force said to affect health
A power once thought to make living things grow and stay alive
How Alive
- Jargon
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning (vital energy or power that sustains life, used in games as a health resource) is directly composed from 'life' (living existence) + 'force' (power/energy/influence). This is a common, cross-linguistic compound (e.g. "vital force", concepts like qi/chi) and follows straightforward compositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Life force in games borrows that old idea and turns it into a resource. Game makers show it as a 'health bar' or points you can lose or gain, so it now means a character's energy or health used in play.