Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One million deaths. Used as a unit in reference to nuclear warfare.
Wiktionary
- n. one million deaths, especially as a unit of measure in reference to nuclear warfare
WordNet 3.0
- n. the death of a million people
Etymologies
- From mega + death. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“No North Korean missile is heading your way with a huge canister of megadeath; Obama forgives your nasty rejection of government stimulus money and will send the check anyway, Bristol has finally agreed to use condoms (thank God!), and Hubby just pulled in the driveway with another truck-load of machine-gunned moose.”
“Yet somehow all this damage caused by love is accepted as natural and worth it, just like car megadeath (every year over a million people die in car accidents) has been tolerated by society.”
“Needless to say Mandrake's deferential, diplomatic I-say-old-chap twittering completely fails to sway Ripper or stop the megadeath-dealing behemoth he has set in motion.”
Tony Hendra: That Special Blair Bush Relationship; Shades of Doctor Strangelove.
“Yet we've made zero progress on our main problem: slaughtering each other in generous megadeath quantities.”
“Kahn and his fellow “megadeath intellectuals” believed the United States needed to have a large number of bombs and plans for their use in multiple contingencies.”
“All these tools are now for sale; and how very remarkable it is, in the larger scheme, that the world's first megadeath madam, the metallurgist A.Q. Khan, is "a national hero" in Pakistan.”
“But ceding it led inexorably to megadeath, including Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Auschwitz and Belsen.”
“Richardson listed seven megadeath conflicts in tier two, i. e, magnitude six.”
“It's a multiplayer megadeath fest, which may not be for every taste.”
“I do remember some people scoffed at their name as childish hyperbole but we live in a world where megadeath caused by weapons of mass kaplooey is a real concern and the band is of this world ... you know what I mean.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘megadeath’.
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Catastrophes!
It started with catastrophe theory but I don't know where it will end.
fold catastrophe, cusp catastrophe, swallowtail catas..., butterfly catastr..., hyperbolic umbili..., elliptic umbilic ..., parabolic umbilic..., catastrophe theory, catastrophism, catastrophic kill, eucatastrophe, grey goo and 14 more...
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mega-
very large; by a factor of one million
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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The Measure of Man
Unusual, arcane, or obscure units of measure
cable, cabot, bushel, cade, caliper, callipic cycle, metonic cycle, cunit, air watt, ale gallon, allergy unit, amber and 228 more...
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Sounding like a superhero
Words that sound like they could be the name of a superhero. Or supervillain. Or one of their weapons. Or some form of super paraphernalia...
narcissistic supply, nipple discharge, Radium Girls, exotic pollution, superior meatus, toxic megacolon, neuroblast, extinction burst, butterfly eruption, natural killer cell, spongiform pustul..., zonule of Zinn and 155 more...
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döden
about death in its different forms.
euthanasia, autopsy, post mortem, disinter, rigor mortis, necropolis, requiem, epitaph, exhumation, sepulchre, sarcophagus, terminal burrowing and 60 more...
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