nuke
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 →
2) (informal) To nuke a place is to attack it with nuclear weapons. tree →
3) (slang) To nuke food is to heat it in a microwave. tree →
4) (slang) To nuke something can mean to destroy or delete it completely, for example in a game or on a computer. tree →
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 →
- Nukes were used only twice in war, in 1945. tree →
- Just nuke the leftovers for two minutes. tree →
- I accidentally nuked all my saved files. tree →
- The Cold War was a time of fear about nukes. tree →
- In the game, he nuked the whole base. tree →
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.