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NUCLEAR WINTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war; a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun; most living organisms would perish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("nuclear winter" is a kind of...):
cataclysm; catastrophe (a sudden violent change in the earth's surface)