nuclear winter
noun [C usually singular] specializedDefinition
› a period that scientists believe would follow a large nuclear explosion, when there would be very little light or heat and nothing would grow in the worldEnvironmental issuesRubbish and wasteProtection and protectorsColdSnow and ice
(Definition of nuclear winter noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey idiom
- bitter adjective (COLD)
- bitterly adverb (COLD)
- brass monkey weather idiom
- chill adjective
- chill noun (COLD)
- chill verb
- cold front noun
- cold snap noun
- freeze noun (COLD WEATHER)
- frigid adjective (COLD)
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