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super-quake

super-quake is the alternative form of superquake.

Meaning of superquake

Noun

superquake (plural superquakes)

  1. (rare) An extremely destructive, large-scale quake, often an earthquake of such magnitude; megaseism; megaquake
    • In January 1973, Newsweek magazine reported an earthquake somewhere in the world , and added: "It was not a superquake as earth tremors go."1978, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, Volumes 11-12, A. Ross Eckler, page 104

Forms of super-quake

pluralsuper-quakes

Questions about super-quake

What is super-quake the alternative form of?
Super-quake is the alternative form of superquake.

Words near super-quake in the dictionary

  1. super-primes
  2. super-pseudorandom
  3. super-pseudorandomness
  4. super-puff
  5. super-puffs
  6. super-quake
  7. super-quakes
  8. super-quintessential
  9. super-rat
  10. super-rats
  11. super-resolution

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