nuked

Verb

nuke (third-person singular simple present nukes, present participle nuking, simple past and past participle nuked)

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.

   Synonyms:

   annihilate, devastate, obliterate, destroy, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto

3. (Internet, US, broadly, colloquial, transitive) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
   • The command and control servers used by the Mydoom variant, responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against Korean and US government websites, receive instructions from a master server located in the UK. [...] Apparently, the decision of whoever was responsible to damage the infected...2009 July 14, Lucian Constantin, “Master Control Server for Mydoom DDoS Botnet Tracked to UK: Security Experts Stress that North Korea’s Involvement in the Attacks is Unlikely”, in Softpedia News...
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.

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