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Meanings of nuke in English

Wikidata

An appliance for cooking food using microwave energy.

Portuguese
forno de microondas
Catalan
cap nuclear

The warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb.

forno de microondas
Spanish
lanzar una ofensiva

Strike at with firepower or bombs.

lanzar una ofensiva

To cook or heat in a microwave oven.

Usage of nuke in English
1
Maybe they'll find a way to use must-pass legislation to nuke it.
NY Magazine
2
The legal equivalent of the UK announcing its plans to nuke Brussels.
The Guardian
3
But there could be a fatal flaw in Mr Kim's new nuke.
News.com.au
4
The Russian one is still coming, and those wackos might nuke it.
Nemesis
5
If it was a nuke we probably wouldn't be here right now.
Darkness on the edge of town
6
So, even though the nuke strike didn't happen, Miki completed his assignment.
Sacrifice
7
You've got a target important enough to smuggle a nuke into it.
Beyond The Frontier: Guardian
8
He says they're cowards for not using the nuke on Islam's enemies.
Children of dust: a memoir of pakistan
9
Another raider exploded under Lee's expert fire, leaving only the nuke raider.
Unity
10
One option is to nuke an incoming asteroid, another to ram it.
The Irish Times
11
Right now, everyone's scrambling to get a piece of Iranian nuke pie.
Quantico
12
Oh and will somebody tell them that the suitcase nuke doesn't exist.
Wired
13
I placed both my hands on the backpack nuke, and concentrated hard.
From hell with love
14
It would be like a miniature nuke without all the messy radiation.
Caliban's War
15
Kelly hurled the nuke straight up into the gullet of the cruiser.
First Strike
16
North Korea is again stating its desire to nuke the White House.
Reuters
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Nuke through the time
Nuke across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common