| 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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