Word Finder - nuke

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A nuclear weapon.

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(by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.

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A nuclear power station.

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A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.

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A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.

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A microwave oven.

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Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and it will be ready to eat.

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To use a nuclear weapon on a target.

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If a nuclear war ever breaks out, military facilities are likely to be nuked first.

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To destroy or erase completely.

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To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives.

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• annihilate
• devastate
• obliterate

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(by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).

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To expose to some form of radiation.

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To cook in a microwave oven.

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I’ll nuke some pizza for dinner.

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To over-analyze or overly despair over something.

There were infrastructure keypads and a few of the nuke, bio, electromagnetic, and chem keypads for the East Coast weapons systems.

She returned to her chair, eyes straying to the screen displaying the timeline of the nuke attacks that had plummeted the eastern part of the country into chaos.

Instantly regret it, as this starts the timer on the other nuke.

You surely are not comparing the limited damage to Beirut to dropping a nuke on the city?

You can even, on a few of the levels, get a nuke to use on the enemy.

She'd traveled nonstop, sticking to narrow country roads and the forest to avoid both people and zones marked as having any sort of radiation fallout from the nuke strikes.

I found encrypted correspondence from Greene and your orders to Brady to find me, before the nuke attacks.

He had no idea who they were, except that sightings of them became regular soon after the nuke attacks on the East Coast.

Of course, no one had ever expected the nuke attacks to happen, even someone involved in the insurgent organization blamed for them.

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