Originally posted by xmarksthespotBut you can still level a building with a wrcking ball, and that would take a few hits to do.
The verb as it is being used still has connotations of a swift and decisive action. The context that we are looking at is in reference to combat. To say that Wolverine levels armies is disingenuous.
So its not an instantaneous action. Because then "leveling in one hit" would as I said before, be redundant.
Originally posted by xmarksthespotSwift and decisive don't appear in ANY definition of leveling that I've seen:
Still swift and decisive - imo I'm in no way "levelling a building" with a hammer and chisel even if I do manage to eventually tear it down.
http://onelook.com/?w=level&ls=a
Unless you can find me the dictionary that has "swift and decisive" in its definition. The site I linked you to should allow you to search several dictionaries. Which one has "swift and decisive" when refering to knocking something down?
Originally posted by xmarksthespot
Did I say denotations, I said connotations? Besides I was too lazy to find an actual legit dictionary so I was using Answers.com and Dictionary.com and both have this as one of their definitions: "To knock down with or as if with a blow."
If you want to get technical, that last blow could be "a blow". . . but that doesn't mean that it's one blow, or "swift and decisive".
Jinzin has already stated that it was not intended to be "one blow".
So the context that he was using it was not "one blow".
Originally posted by xmarksthespotThey both level armies, BB just does it faster, that doesn't mean that Wolverine can't "knock down" armies does it? Since that's all level means. "Knock down." There is no reference to speed.
I don't want to get technical - I hate arguing semantics.
But frankly imo it's still disingenuous and hyperbolic to say that Wolverine levels armies.Black Bolt levels armies. ✅
Wolverine levels armies? 🤨