"zorch" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1990 November 30, Jim Burnes, “\"ZOG\"?”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet)",
          "text": "I was well on my way to zorching my GPA as a sophomore and becoming quite the computer hacker when Luis my mentor took me aside. He told me that my grades werent up to snuff when I told him I was getting C's in Spanish (that was my best subject that month).",
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          "text": "Assuming you are willing to live with the consequences, which include obliterating everything within a hundred kilometers of your launch site, dumping a hundred tons of fallout into the stratosphere, and zorching every piece of electronics sight.",
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          "ref": "2002 May 20, Timothy A. McDaniel, “ConJose planning”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet)",
          "text": "[…] I probably just wasn't inserting the memory DIMM correctly, not that it was intrinsically unseatable; I zorched the motherboard myself when trying to remove disk drives […]",
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          "ref": "2003 May 7, Alan Winston - SSRL Admin Cmptg Mgr, “AKICIF: Browser bafflement”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet)",
          "text": "But if you're doing disk-to-disk backup you want at least two backup disks, since it's kind of a nightmare if your good disk zorches right in the middle of the backup, giving you a zorched backup disk as well.",
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          "ref": "2011 July 15, Curt, “First Rule of Liberalism”, in seattle.politics (Usenet)",
          "text": "Zorching the economy so badly we still haven't dug out two years after he's gone ..",
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        "To destroy or ruin, especially by electronic means."
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        "(intransitive, transitive, slang) To destroy or ruin, especially by electronic means."
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          "ref": "1987, John McDermott, Artificial Intelligence: 10th International Joint Conference, volume 1, page 152",
          "text": "This is done by using a numerical constant, called zorch, to start marker-passing and dividing it by outbranching […]",
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          "text": "[…] it and all its first set of descendants can be marked, but the zorch runs out quickly.",
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          "ref": "2008, Richard Trent Llewellyn, Annotating the Biological Process of Proteins with Functional Linkages, page 39",
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