underkilln.

Etymology: < under- prefix¹ 5(a), after overkill.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈunderkill.

colloquial (originally U.S.).

(The mobilization of) insufficient capacity, esp. of nuclear weapons, to kill and effect destruction to the level of strategic requirements. Frequently figurative.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > a particular species of weapon > nuclear > quality or quantity of

dirtiness1956

underkill1964

1964 New 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.

1971 Time 5 July 13 Harvard's Paul A. Freund maintained that ‘risk for risk, the law has opted for underkill in duels over publication’.

1984 Financial 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	underkill
释义	underkilln. Etymology: < under- prefix¹ 5(a), after overkill.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈunderkill. colloquial (originally U.S.). (The mobilization of) insufficient capacity, esp. of nuclear weapons, to kill and effect destruction to the level of strategic requirements. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > a particular species of weapon > nuclear > quality or quantity of dirtiness1956 underkill1964 1964 New 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. 1971 Time 5 July 13 Harvard's Paul A. Freund maintained that ‘risk for risk, the law has opted for underkill in duels over publication’. 1984 Financial 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1964
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