nuke

1. (Canada, US, colloquial, transitive)To use a nuclear weapon on (a target).

   If a nuclear war ever breaks out, military facilities are likely to be nuked first.

2. (Canada, US, colloquial, figuratively, transitive)To destroy or erase completely.

   He had his posts nuked from the Google archives.

3. (Internet, US, broadly, colloquial, transitive)To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).

4. (Internet, US, colloquial, transitive)To maliciously destroy an online community or chat server (especially on Discord) by mass-deleting channels, roles, and messages, or by mass-banning members, often using an automated script or bot.

   The Chaos Gang managed to get administrator permissions and nuke the entire server in seconds.

5. (Canada, US, colloquial, transitive)To expose to some form of radiation.

6. (Canada, US, colloquial, transitive)To cook in a microwave oven.

   I’ll nuke some pizza for dinner.

   cook or heat in a microwave oven

7. (US, colloquial, transitive)To overanalyze or despair unduly over something.

1. Can a nuke break an asteroid apart?

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2. Tom was put on a team in charge of a tactical nuke.

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3. It's hard to hear you over the sound of a hundred nukes going off.

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4. Where are the nukes?

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5. We're just chimps with nukes.

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