{
  "nuke":{
    "antonyms":[
      "build",
      "construct",
      "erect",
      "put up",
      "raise",
      "rear",
      "set up"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a nuclear weapon":[],
      ": a nuclear-powered electric generating station":[],
      ": microwave":[],
      ": to attack or destroy with or as if with nuclear bombs":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "a pretty sizable piece of real estate would be nuked if an asteroid struck",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "What would happen if a chemical weapon was dropped on Ukraine and/or a short-range tactical nuke ",
      "That\u2019s another reason to fear Putin\u2019s deployment of a tactical nuke would lead to the West retaliating. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Consider a 1 megaton nuke , reportedly the size of a warhead on a modern Russian intercontinental ballistic missile. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "The administration of President George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and doubled down on missile-defense spending in order to develop weapons capable of stopping an Iranian or North Korean nuke . \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 18 Oct. 2021",
      "And Iran offers him the best opportunity not only to keep Tehran from getting a nuke but to do so in a way that might make Mr. Xi and Mr. Putin think twice about their own aggressive plans. \u2014 William Mcgurn, WSJ , 3 Jan. 2022",
      "Four decades later, China might be taking its own swing at the idea of a fractional, orbital nuke . \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021",
      "Israel got a nuke , and with the help of just about every other Western power, Israel has striven to be a state that does bad things to other people and not a state to which bad things happen. \u2014 Noah Kulwin, The New Republic , 24 June 2021",
      "In this case, the task involves cleaning out a Las Vegas casino vault before the government drops a nuke on the city to eradicate the zombie threat. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 13 May 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "That led to a three-hole playoff at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., between Thomas and Zalatoris, two wiry Americans who nuke golf balls despite their slight frames. \u2014 Andrew Beaton, WSJ , 23 May 2022",
      "Moscow has long threatened to nuke Britain during tense moments dating back to the 1956 Suez Crisis. \u2014 Michael Peck, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
      "Houck, the co-editor and co-publisher of Edible Alaska, said salmon is such a cook-friendly food that there\u2019s no need to nuke it. \u2014 Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "And Joe Manchin and his moderate colleagues seem unwilling to nuke the filibuster. \u2014 Patrick Caldwell, The New Republic , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "The \u00a3350 million Brexit bus causes a roadblock; former Tory Rory Stewart\u2019s awkward selfies are ready to print in Snappy Snaps; and Labour party leader Keir Starmer steels himself to nuke Geronimo the alpaca. \u2014 Will Pritchard, Wired , 13 Nov. 2021",
      "News that China has tested an orbital nuclear bombardment system has created fears that China could nuke America from space. \u2014 Michael Peck, Forbes , 18 Oct. 2021",
      "Weirdly, the reheating instructions said to nuke it in the microwave on high for two minutes. \u2014 Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News , 27 Sep. 2021",
      "In the span of a year when everyone\u2019s been on edge, prolific Mexican director Michel Franco managed to nuke our comfort zones not once, but twice, delivering separate provocations at back-to-back editions of the Venice Film Festival. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 5 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1958, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1962, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "by shortening and respelling from nuclear":"Noun",
      "derivative of nuke entry 1":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ny\u00fck",
      "\u02c8n\u00fck"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "annihilate",
      "cream",
      "decimate",
      "demolish",
      "desolate",
      "destroy",
      "devastate",
      "do in",
      "extinguish",
      "pull down",
      "pulverize",
      "raze",
      "rub out",
      "ruin",
      "shatter",
      "smash",
      "tear down",
      "total",
      "vaporize",
      "waste",
      "wrack",
      "wreck"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052812",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  }
}