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superweapon en · NOUN

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Etymology

From super- + weapon.

Meanings

1. An extremely powerful weapon.
   • We must be very careful how we pin our faith on this thing, assuming that It is successfully developed; we must be wary of the idea that a superweapon can give us a superpower in the world or relieve us of the hard obligations of intelligent policy and diplomacy, of consistency, integrity, and foresight on the basic plane of human relationships. 1873, United States Congress, Congressional Record, The Congress, page 761:
   • It was after the publication of 1984 that Orwell became, as Isaac Deutscher put it, an ideological "superweapon of the cold war." 1969 February 3, The Nation, J.H. Richards, page 150:
   • And this was what Prussianism aimed at with her supermen and superweapons: to place the whole world in fetters and enforce the doctrine that “ might is right.” 1918, Muriel Hine, The Best in Life, John Lane Company, page 216:

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Translations (1)

fi superase (extremely powerful weapon)