Nuke

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A nuclear device or weapon.
  • n. A nuclear-powered electric generating plant.
  • v. To attack with nuclear weapons.
  • v. To heat in a microwave oven: "I obtained this soup by nuking one cup of water and mixing that with . . . bouillonā€ ( Judy Markey).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Nuclear weapon.
  • n. Something that negates - especially on a catastrophic scale. Destruction.
  • n. A microwave oven
  • v. To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
  • v. To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven.
  • v. To completely destroy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The nape of the neck.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cook or heat in a microwave oven
  • n. the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb
  • v. strike at with firepower or bombs
  • v. bomb with atomic weapons
  • Verb Form
    nuked    nukes    nuking   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cook    payload    load    warhead    bombard    bomb   
    Form
    nuker   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baruch    Dubuque    Duke    Luke    Wouk    chook    duke    fluke    fuke    juke   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    warhead    dicuss    thermonuclear    nuclear    stalemate    antimatter    photon    torpedo    fission    radioactive