Nuke
verb
To attack or destroy with nuclear weapons.
The rogue state threatened to nuke its enemies.
Often appears as...
- nuke the city
- nuke the base
verb
To cook or heat food in a microwave oven.
I'll just nuke this pizza for a couple of minutes.
Often appears as...
- nuke the leftovers
- nuke a meal
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Informal
Colloquial
verb
To completely destroy or eliminate something.
The virus nuked all my files.
Often appears as...
- nuke the data
- nuke the system
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A nuclear weapon.
The world fears the use of nukes.
Often appears as...
- deploy a nuke
- nuke test
Usage tips
Informal
verb
To attack or destroy with nuclear weapons.
The rogue state threatened to nuke its enemies.
Often appears as...
- nuke the city
- nuke the base
verb
To cook or heat food in a microwave oven.
I'll just nuke this pizza for a couple of minutes.
Often appears as...
- nuke the leftovers
- nuke a meal
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
verb
To completely destroy or eliminate something.
The virus nuked all my files.
Often appears as...
- nuke the data
- nuke the system
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A nuclear weapon.
The world fears the use of nukes.
Often appears as...
- deploy a nuke
- nuke test
Usage tips
Informal
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Serious Connotation
Using 'nuke' implies a destructive and often deadly action, taken very seriously in global politics.
If they nuke the capital, it'll start a war.
Pro Tip 2/2Avoid Joking
Be careful not to joke about 'nuking' places or people - it can be seen as offensive or insensitive.
It's not funny to say you'll nuke someone's hometown.
Pro Tip 1/2Serious Connotation
Using 'nuke' implies a destructive and often deadly action, taken very seriously in global politics.
If they nuke the capital, it'll start a war.
Pro Tip 2/2Avoid Joking
Be careful not to joke about 'nuking' places or people - it can be seen as offensive or insensitive.
It's not funny to say you'll nuke someone's hometown.
Pro Tip 1/2Serious Connotation
Using 'nuke' implies a destructive and often deadly action, taken very seriously in global politics.
If they nuke the capital, it'll start a war.
Pro Tip 2/2Avoid Joking
Be careful not to joke about 'nuking' places or people - it can be seen as offensive or insensitive.
It's not funny to say you'll nuke someone's hometown.
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What's wrong with what...
which contained as many soy and corn products as could be crammed into it. Think of the frozen chicken nugget. The chicken is fed corn, and then its meat is ground up, and mixed with more corn products to add bulk and binder, and then it's fried in corn oil. All you do is nuke it. What could be better?
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Lucy in the Sky with...
two major movies hit theaters both featuring killer impacts from outer space in armageddon bruce willis leads a ragtag crew to nuke an oncoming asteroid which by the way is something that only works in the movies and in deep impact president morgan freeman gives a rousing speech after
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Why I study the most...
and they are at exactly the same locations. What does this tell us? It means that if we can map all these locations across villages, we could actually crush these populations by just a single blow. Kind of, you know, bomb-spray them or nuke them out.
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
to set our Earth in a cosmic context. And let me just run through a few slides. This was the impact that happened last week on a comet. If they'd sent a nuke, it would have been rather more spectacular than what actually happened last Monday.
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T. Boone Pickens: Let's...
do not build a reformer on the ocean. And now I think reformers are safe. Move them inland and on very stable ground and build the reformers. There isn't anything wrong with nuke. You're going to have to have energy. There is no question.
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Why we make bad...
That's a tough one. There's no question. Poverty, by an order of magnitude, a huge order of magnitude, unless someone can show that there's, you know, terrorists with a nuke are really likely to come. The latest I've read, seen, thought
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Assassin Bug vs. Vampire...
take this newly hatched assassin bug baby called a nymph to grow the nymph must have the blood of a vertebrate and so the nymphs first act after finding its legs is to go vertebrate hunting Fisher reptile will do but the nuke was
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Geographic Bee 2010 - SD...
nuclear missiles there could be a nuke on or nuclear water around the world ruin our crops and with a team more and more devastation okay and then we'll do this last one how do you smush all of this information into your brain
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Assassin Bug vs. Bat PIPE...
do but the nuke was born near a cave in his home for both fruit bats and vampire bats this sleeping fruit bat will do nicely the nymph consensus victim's body heat it punctures the bats wingtip with
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3 questions we should...
So you nuke me, I nuke you, and we both lose. So in a way, there's a stalemate. No one uses their weapons, and we're all safe. But this theory has real questions.
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What's wrong with what...
which contained as many soy and corn products as could be crammed into it. Think of the frozen chicken nugget. The chicken is fed corn, and then its meat is ground up, and mixed with more corn products to add bulk and binder, and then it's fried in corn oil. All you do is nuke it. What could be better?
Video examples
Lucy in the Sky with...
two major movies hit theaters both featuring killer impacts from outer space in armageddon bruce willis leads a ragtag crew to nuke an oncoming asteroid which by the way is something that only works in the movies and in deep impact president morgan freeman gives a rousing speech after
Video examples
Why I study the most...
and they are at exactly the same locations. What does this tell us? It means that if we can map all these locations across villages, we could actually crush these populations by just a single blow. Kind of, you know, bomb-spray them or nuke them out.
Video examples
Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
to set our Earth in a cosmic context. And let me just run through a few slides. This was the impact that happened last week on a comet. If they'd sent a nuke, it would have been rather more spectacular than what actually happened last Monday.
Video examples
T. Boone Pickens: Let's...
do not build a reformer on the ocean. And now I think reformers are safe. Move them inland and on very stable ground and build the reformers. There isn't anything wrong with nuke. You're going to have to have energy. There is no question.
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Why we make bad...
That's a tough one. There's no question. Poverty, by an order of magnitude, a huge order of magnitude, unless someone can show that there's, you know, terrorists with a nuke are really likely to come. The latest I've read, seen, thought
Video examples
Assassin Bug vs. Vampire...
take this newly hatched assassin bug baby called a nymph to grow the nymph must have the blood of a vertebrate and so the nymphs first act after finding its legs is to go vertebrate hunting Fisher reptile will do but the nuke was
Video examples
Geographic Bee 2010 - SD...
nuclear missiles there could be a nuke on or nuclear water around the world ruin our crops and with a team more and more devastation okay and then we'll do this last one how do you smush all of this information into your brain
Video examples
Assassin Bug vs. Bat PIPE...
do but the nuke was born near a cave in his home for both fruit bats and vampire bats this sleeping fruit bat will do nicely the nymph consensus victim's body heat it punctures the bats wingtip with
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3 questions we should...
So you nuke me, I nuke you, and we both lose. So in a way, there's a stalemate. No one uses their weapons, and we're all safe. But this theory has real questions.
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Eric Massa
American Politician
That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were done trying to cut it out, nuke it out with radiation and chemotherapy it out, it left so much scar tissue that when I walk outside now in cold weather and take a deep breath, it feels like someone is stabbing me.
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David E. Sanger
American Journalist
It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted.
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Michael Arrington
American Businessman
Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the quality of the hardware or software or who the CEO was, is silly.
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Park Yeon-mi
North Korean Activist
North Korea spends billions of dollars to make this nuke test system. If they would spend just 20 percent of what they spent on making nuclear weapons, nobody would have to die in North Korea from hunger but the regime chose to make us hungry.
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Craig Kilborn
Entertainer
New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.
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Barry Gardiner
British Politician
We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke a famine.
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John Keegan
English Historian
I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.
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Eric Massa
American Politician
That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were done trying to cut it out, nuke it out with radiation and chemotherapy it out, it left so much scar tissue that when I walk outside now in cold weather and take a deep breath, it feels like someone is stabbing me.
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David E. Sanger
American Journalist
It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted.
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Michael Arrington
American Businessman
Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the quality of the hardware or software or who the CEO was, is silly.
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Park Yeon-mi
North Korean Activist
North Korea spends billions of dollars to make this nuke test system. If they would spend just 20 percent of what they spent on making nuclear weapons, nobody would have to die in North Korea from hunger but the regime chose to make us hungry.
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Craig Kilborn
Entertainer
New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.
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Barry Gardiner
British Politician
We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke a famine.
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John Keegan
English Historian
I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.
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