nuke
noun
a nuclear or thermonuclear weapon.
will nuke
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future tenseof nuke.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Second, they’re trying to ensure that we can’t nuke them without worrying that they will nuke us back—in which case we probably won’t nuke them in the first place.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2021
"On Unix, `rm -r /usr' will nuke everything in the usr filesystem."
From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Eric S. Raymond
"On Unix, rm -r /usr will nuke everything in the usr filesystem."
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
"On UNIX, `rm -r /usr' will nuke everything in the usr filesystem."
From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Eric S. Raymond
