Denuke

verb, slang

verb, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    Clipping of denuclearize. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, transitive

    "There have been suggestions by a number of American neoconservative hawks to denuke Iran with “swift, massive, devastating force that decapitates the regime."

Synonyms

All synonyms
denuclearize

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"There have been suggestions by a number of American neoconservative hawks to denuke Iran with “swift, massive, devastating force that decapitates the regime."

Etymology

From de- + nuke.

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