zap
verb (used with object)
to bombard with electrical current, radiation, laser beams, etc..
will zap
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future tenseof zap.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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But what if instead we all burrow into our bunkers in the hope that the flying saucers will zap our neighbors instead of us?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2020
I’m a member of the SuperCam team, an instrument suite developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory that will zap rocks with a laser to determine their composition and search for telltale signatures of life.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 14, 2020
But the technology has already been incorporated into commercial prototypes, like an electro-fork that will zap your tongue into thinking you’re tasting salt.
From Slate ● May 22, 2019
The rover will zap the rock from a distance with its ChemCam laser and examine it up close with its Mahli "hand lens" and the X-ray spectrometer known as APXS.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2012
Locker has many freakish talents, but not even his five-step drop will zap him back in time.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2010
