Kamikaze

/ˌkɑː.mɪˈkɑː.ziː/

Synonyms for "kamikaze" (20 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Noun(4 words)
doomedfatalfigurative usefoolhardy

Strong matches (6)

Noun(6 words)
hazardousmartyrdom strikemetaphorical usepejorative extensionrecklessreckless plunge

Related words (10)

Noun(10 words)
risky gambitsacrificial raidself destructiveself sacrificing fighterself-destructself-destruct attacksuicidalsuicide attacksuicide attackersuicide pilot

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

24 entries
actair attackairplane pilotattackattack aircraftcombat actioncombat operationcombatantfighterfighter aircraftfigurative descriptormaneuvermilitary actionmilitary operationmilitary personnelmilitary term

Showing 16 of 24 words.

More specific

17 entries
air raiddesperate biddo or die tacticextreme risk strategykamikaze attackkamikaze corps memberkamikaze framingkamikaze missionkamikaze policykamikaze raidkamikaze rhetoricpilot kamikazerash decisionreckless plungerisky gambitspecial attack unit member

Showing 16 of 17 words.

Collocations

10 entries
Japanese kamikazekamikaze attackkamikaze missionkamikaze operationkamikaze pilotkamikaze raidkamikaze squadkamikaze strikekamikaze tacticlate war kamikaze

Inflections

5 entries
kamikazedkamikazeskamikazingmore kamikazemost kamikaze

Derivations

2 entries

Translations

33 translations across 22 languages.

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Arabic

2 entries
  • كَامِيكَازِي noun (suicidal attack)
  • هُجُومٌ إِنْتِحَارِيّ noun (suicidal attack)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • kamikadze noun (suicidal attack)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 神風 /神风 noun (suicidal attack)
  • 神風攻擊 /神风攻击 noun (suicidal attack)

Danish

1 entries
  • kamikazeaktion noun (suicidal attack)

Finnish

1 entries
  • itsemurhahyökkäys noun (suicidal attack)

Galician

1 entries
  • kamikaze noun (suicidal attack)

Georgian

1 entries
  • კამიკაძე noun (suicidal attack)

German

4 entries
  • Himmelfahrtskommando noun (suicidal attack)
  • Selbstmordangriff noun (suicidal attack)
  • Selbstmordanschlag noun (suicidal attack)
  • Selbstmordattentat noun (suicidal attack)

Greek

1 entries
  • επίθεση αυτοκτονίας noun (suicidal attack)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • kamikaze noun (suicidal attack)

Japanese

3 entries
  • 体当たり noun (suicidal attack)
  • 神風 noun (suicidal attack)
  • 神風攻撃 noun (suicidal attack)

Korean

2 entries
  • 가미카제 noun (suicidal attack)
  • 다이아타리 noun (suicidal attack)

Kyrgyz

2 entries
  • жанкечти noun (suicidal attack)
  • камикадзе noun (suicidal attack)

Malay

1 entries
  • kamikaze noun (suicidal attack)

Persian

1 entries
  • کامیکازه noun (suicidal attack)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • camicase noun (suicidal attack)
  • kamikaze noun (suicidal attack)

Russian

1 entries
  • камика́дзе noun (suicidal attack)

Spanish

1 entries
  • kamikaze noun (suicidal attack)

Swedish

1 entries
  • kamikaze noun (suicidal attack)

Turkish

1 entries
  • kamikaze noun (suicidal attack)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • thần phong noun (suicidal attack)

Welsh

2 entries
  • camicasi noun (suicidal attack)
  • kamikaze noun (suicidal attack)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

Source: tatoeba (1851923)

Hiroshi died in a kamikaze mission in World War II.

Source: tatoeba (10289713)

Coupled with this were issues involving actually getting enough torpedoes out there to the fleet in the first place! Whilst they were a munition, a torpedo is far more complex and took far longer to build than a shell for a naval gun, even a battleship shell. Torpedoes, remember, are effectively small self-guiding kamikaze submarines, and, so, unless you have a large factory and an extensive production line going, you're only gonna see handfuls produced each year.

Source: wiktionary

The Ukrainians themselves have been using kamikaze drones to strike against Russian targets – and asked their allies to supply them with more of these deadly weapons.

Source: wiktionary

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