Definitions for nuke

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Spelling: [nook, nyook]

IPA: /nuk, nyuk/

Nuke is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in nuke (eknu).

Definitions for nuke

noun

1. a nuclear or thermonuclear weapon.
2. a nuclear power plant or nuclear reactor.
3. nuclear energy:

adjective

1. of or relating to a nuclear or thermonuclear weapon or to a nuclear plant.

verb (used with object)

1. to attack, defeat, or destroy with or as if with nuclear weapons.
2. Slang. to cook or bake in a microwave oven.

Origin of nuke

First recorded in 1945-50; by shortening and respelling

Examples for nuke

Or perhaps, this time, the North might not explode a nuke—it might sink another South Korea naval vessel, as it did in 2010.

Netanyahu wants Obama to do whatever it takes to prevent an Iranian nuke, including going to war.

Would she be taken less seriously if she showed up for the nuke talks in her hot pink jacket?

Ron Fountain knows what the Japanese nuke plant workers are going through.

Today as well, politicians from both parties simply assume that Iran is pursuing a nuke.

I read that you nuke The Daily Beast lineup late every Sunday night and keep your employees away from Boardwalk Empire.

In response to the revelation the Mormon Church had donated considerable cash to the cause, cries went up to “nuke Utah.”

Start with the first question: whether Iran would be suicidal enough to use or transfer a nuke.

The ATP will threaten to nuke the TP, totally unaware that the TP also possesses nukes set to launch on warning.