English word senses marked with topical category "Violence": strike … thermonuclear weapon

English word senses marked with topical category "Violence"

strike … thermonuclear weapon (46 senses)

strike (Verb) To take down, especially in the following contexts.; To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)

strike (Verb) To take down, especially in the following contexts.; To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.

strike (Verb) To take down, especially in the following contexts.; To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.

strike (Verb) To take down, especially in the following contexts.; To quit (one's job).

strike (Verb) To take down, especially in the following contexts.; To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).

strike (Verb) To take down, especially in the following contexts.; To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).

string up (Verb) To kill (a person) by hanging, especially to lynch.

string up (Verb) To die by hanging.

string up (Verb) To concatenate; to link in a line.

strontium-90 (Noun) The radioactive isotope of strontium, ⁹⁰₃₈Sr, that is present in the fallout from nuclear explosions and, being chemically similar to calcium, accumulates in the bones

subcritical (Adjective) Having insufficient mass to sustain a chain reaction

subcritical mass (Noun) A mass of fissile material that is insufficient to sustain a nuclear chain reaction.

substrategic (Adjective) At a lesser level than full strategic nuclear warfare.

sucker punch (Noun) A disabling punch targeting a place which is not normally acceptable in a "fair fight", such as on the back of the head.

suicide attack (Noun) An attack on others that involves the assailant committing suicide.

suicide bomber (Noun) One who carries explosives on his or her body or in a vehicle and intends to detonate them (dying in the process) to kill people and inflict widespread damage, usually motivated by a political or religious cause.

suicide bombing (Noun) An attack carried out by a suicide bomber or a group of them.

suitcase nuke (Noun) A portable tactical nuclear weapon.

superbomb (Noun) An extremely powerful bomb, especially the atomic bomb or hydrogen bomb.

supercritical (Adjective) Of a substance or system above a critical threshold or range; Having a mass sufficient to sustain an accelerating fission chain reaction.

supercritical mass (Noun) A mass of fissile material that is more than sufficient to sustain a nuclear chain reaction.

supergrade (Adjective) Of plutonium: containing a very small portion of isotopes other than plutonium-239 (especially plutonium-240) (less than perhaps 3%), making the plutonium especially suitable for nuclear weapons

supermissile (Noun) An extremelypowerful, self-propelled projectile whose trajectory is adjustable after it is launched.

superviolent (Adjective) Especially violent.

superwarhead (Noun) An extremely destructive and powerful warhead.

swack (Adjective) Lithe; nimble.

swack (Noun) Synonym of smack; A sharp blow.

swack (Noun) A single attempt or instance of taking action; a crack; a go.

swack (Noun) Clout; influence.

swirlie (Noun) A mode of school bullying involving holding a person upside down over a toilet bowl, submerging their head, then flushing water.

swordfight (Noun) A fight or duel using swords

swordplay (Noun) fighting with a sword

tacnuke (Noun) A tactical nuclear weapon.

take a bullet (Verb) To purposely receive a gunshot that was intended for another.

take by storm (Verb) To capture by means of a sudden, overwhelming attack.

take out the trash (Verb) To announce something, hoping it will not get much publicity, at a time when it is not likely to be noticed by the news media, for instance on election day or late on Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend.

take to the streets (Verb) To rampage or riot.

tamper (Noun) A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.

tan someone's hide (Verb) To beat or spank someone.

targeted killing (Noun) The intentional killing by a government or its agents of a civilian or "unlawful combatant" who is not in that government's custody, and who is taking part in an armed conflict or terrorism, whether by bearing arms or otherwise, and is thus regarded by the government as having lost the immunity from being targeted that he or she would otherwise have under the Geneva Conventions.

tear into (Verb) To subject to a heavy attack, physical or figurative.

tear up (Verb) To start shedding tears.

teensploitation (Noun) A genre of exploitation films, starring teenage actors with teen-oriented plots involving drugs, sex, alcohol or crime.

terminator (Noun) Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.

terminator (Noun) A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.

terminator (Noun) A DNA sequence that causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.

terminator (Noun) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.

terminator (Noun) An intelligent android created to destroy humans.

terrorism (Noun) The system of fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.

terrorism (Noun) The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.

terrorism (Noun) The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.; The use of intimidation or bullying tactics.

tertiary (Adjective) Possessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals.

tertiary (Noun) A tertiary colour.

tertiary (Noun) A large stage in some extremely powerful thermonuclear weapons (resembling a greatly-enlarged secondary) which is compressed by the explosion of the secondary until ignition of nuclear fusion takes place, in much the same manner as the secondary is imploded by the primary, and which can allow for the attainment of yields of many tens or even hundreds of megatons, and likely even greater; not used …

tertiary (Noun) A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities similar to those engaged in by men and women who take religious vows (respectively the first and second orders), and who may wear some elements of an order's habit such as a scapular.

the Bomb (Noun) Alternative form of the bomb (as in a nuclear bomb)

the bad place (Noun) Hell.

the bomb (Noun) The atomic bomb; the capability to launch a nuclear attack.

the other place (Noun) Hell

theater (Noun) A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.

theater of war (Noun) The area in which armed conflict takes place.

thermonuclear (Noun) A thermonuclear weapon.

thermonuclear bomb (Noun) Synonym of thermonuclear weapon

thermonuclear war (Noun) A nuclear war, assuming at least some of the bombs are thermonuclear.

thermonuclear weapon (Noun) A weapon whose power is derived from nuclear fusion at high temperature

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