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Nuked vs Unked - What's the difference?

nuked | unked |

As a verb nuked

is past tense of nuke.

As an adjective unked is

odd; strange.

nuked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nuke)

    • nuke

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Nuclear weapon.
    • "I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each''" - John Travolta in the movie ''Swordfish .
  • Something that negates or destroys, especially on a catastrophic scale.
  • (US, slang) A microwave oven
    • "Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and then eat it. "
  • Nuclear electrical power generation station. http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke

    • Verb

    (nuk)
  • To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
    • First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
  • (colloquial) To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven.
    • I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.
  • (colloquial) To completely destroy.
    • To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives.''http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke (see also ''expunge )

    Derived terms

    * nuker

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    unked

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, dialect) odd; strange
  • (UK, dialect) ugly
  • (UK, dialect) old
  • (UK, dialect) uncouth
  • (UK, dialect) lonely; dreary; unkard
    • Weston is sadly unked without you. — Cowper.
    (Webster 1913)