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Nuke

noun
Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.nounA nuclear weapon.
2.noun(by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
3.nounA nuclear power station.
4.nounA vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
5.nounA person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
6.nounA microwave oven.
"Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and it will be ready to eat."
7.verbTo use a nuclear weapon on a target.
"If a nuclear war ever breaks out, military facilities are likely to be nuked first."
8.verbTo destroy or erase completely.
"To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives."
9.verb(by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
10.verbTo expose to some form of radiation.
11.verbTo cook in a microwave oven.
"I’ll nuke some pizza for dinner."
12.verbTo over-analyze or overly despair over something.

Synonyms

annihilatedevastateobliteratemicrowaveatomizezapatom-bombatomic warheadmicro-cooknuclear warheadthermonuclear warheadbomb

Rhymes With

rebukeflukejukedukelukesoukgrand dukestook
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