Kill
Kill verb - To deprive of life.
Nuke
Nuke verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
Usage example: a pretty sizable piece of real estate would be nuked if an asteroid struck
Kill and nuke are semantically related in attack with nuclear weapons topic. You can use "Kill" instead a verb "Nuke".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- She tears him to shreds and when the Geass activates, the only way he can "live" is to fire the nuke and kill half of Tokyo.
Source: Chekhov's Boomerang - That's right, tick Neville off and he won't play around or try to punish you, he'll bring out a magic nuke and kill you dead.
Source: Good Is Not Soft -
Later, a straight example of this troupe is used, known as the Commculear, which is said to be a nuke that doesn't kill those hit, but instead, it brainwashes those hit into becoming communists.
Source: Fantastic Nuke
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