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# nuke

«nuke» in Mova's school dictionary: **a nuclear weapon, a bomb of enormous power** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a nuke, nukes); verb (nuke, nukes, nuked, nuking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) A nuke is a nuclear weapon, a bomb of enormous power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuke/#m1)

2) (informal) To nuke a place is to attack it with nuclear weapons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuke/#m2)

3) (slang) To nuke food is to heat it in a microwave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuke/#m3)

4) (slang) To nuke something can mean to destroy or delete it completely, for example in a game or on a computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuke/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In news and history (the Cold War, Hiroshima) it is a serious word; in everyday slang it is jokey: «nuke the pizza».

### examples

- Some countries have nukes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuke/#x1)
- Nukes were used only twice in war, in 1945. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuke/#x2)
- Just nuke the leftovers for two minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuke/#x3)
- I accidentally nuked all my saved files. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuke/#x4)
- The Cold War was a time of fear about nukes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuke/#x5)
- In the game, he nuked the whole base. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuke/#x6)

### note

Informal; in formal writing say «nuclear weapon». Past: nuked. The microwave sense is a joke: microwaves are not nuclear and do not make food radioactive.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nuke» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuke/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.