nuke

1. 1.

   the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb

   Synonymsatomic warheadnuclear warheadthermonuclear warhead

   Broaderwarhead

   Part ofnuclear weapon

Other forms of nuke

plural

nukes·

past tense

nuked·

present participle

nuking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nuke

What does nuke mean?

nuke means "strike at with firepower or bombs". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nuke?

nuke has 1 syllable: nuke. In IPA it is /ˈnuk/.

What is another word for nuke?

Close synonyms include atomize, atomise, zap, atom-bomb, microwave. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nuke a common word?

nuke is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.