Word Finder - nukes

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A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.

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There was a small broom for sweeping ash kept in the nook between the fireplace bricks and the wall.

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• alcove
• ancone
• recess

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A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat.

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The back of the used book shop was one of her favorite nooks; she could read for hours and no one would bother her or pester her to buy.

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A recess, cove or hollow.

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• niche

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An English unit of land area, originally 1/4 of a yardland but later 12 1/2 or 20 acres.

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• fardel

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A corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land.

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A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.

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The spinal cord.

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The back of the neck, the nape; of an animal: the back of the head or the portion of the body behind the head.

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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.

If we stop them building nukes they'll just come and poop in our water supply.

The US is now ready to virtually commit the NPT to history to clear the way for developing new nukes and space weaponry.

There are literally dozens of perfectly valid reasons why Iran would want nukes.

When I got up to go the bathroom, it was the 1990s, and the left thought nukes were bad.

These advances, in turn, will give us a leg up on the ' loose nukes ' problem that rightly worries us all.

There's a great head of steam pushing for new nukes around our coastline.

The UK/US have little regard for the NPT and are both planning to build more nukes.

He's obsessed with suitcase nukes, with tiny weapons concealed in bags, easily carried into the city.

Defensive upgrades include a few hundred kinetic energy turrets and a few prized nukes.

The major cities in the East hit by nukes were marked in red with concentric circles that faded to orange, yellow, and finally green as they stretched west.

The attacks on the coast occurred simultaneously with nukes that would've been impossible to hide, let alone smuggle into the country.

If you have used several nukes before, risk of viral load rebound is higher. abacavir.

We spoke to a senior police officer about the questions _ " do you have nukes etc?