Nuke Definition

no͝ok, nyo͝ok
nuked, nukes, nuking
noun
nukes
A nuclear weapon or submarine.
Webster's New World
A nuclear reactor or power plant.
Webster's New World

Something that negates - especially on a catastrophic scale. Destruction.

Wiktionary
(US, slang) A microwave oven.
"Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and then eat it."
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • thermonuclear-warhead
  • nuclear warhead
  • atomic warhead
verb
To attack with nuclear weapons.
Webster's New World
To cook (food) in a microwave oven.
Webster's New World
(colloquial) To completely destroy.
To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives. (see also expunge)
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Other Word Forms of Nuke

Noun

Singular:
nuke
Plural:
nukes

Origin of Nuke

  • Shortening and alteration of nuclear

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Short form of nuclear (weapon).

    From Wiktionary

Nuke Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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Words Starting With

NNUNUK

Words Ending With

EKEUKE

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Words Starting With N and Ending With E

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