“underkill”的英英意思

单词

underkill

释义

ˈunderkill colloq. (orig. U.S.).
[f. under-¹ 10 a, after overkill.]
(The mobilization of) insufficient capacity, esp. of nuclear weapons, to kill and effect destruction to the level of strategic requirements. Freq. fig.
1964New Scientist 10 Sept. 647/2 Mr Goldwater has engaged in a press war..over the future strength of United States' strategic retaliatory force—what for lack of a better description might be called the question of underkill.1971Time 5 July 13 Harvard's Paul A. Freund maintained that ‘risk for risk, the law has opted for underkill in duels over publication’.1984Financial Times 20 Jan. 21/1 There is no limit to the silliness resulting when that director goes over the top and weds visual overkill to narrative and dramatic underkill.

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