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Definition of 'zap'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) zap
to attack, defeat, destroy, or kill with sudden speed and force.

2.  zap
to bombard with electrical current, radiation, laser beams, gunfire, etc.

3.  zap
to strike or jolt suddenly and forcefully.

4.  zap
to skip over or delete (TV commercials), as by switching channels or fast-forwarding a VCR.

5. (v.i.) zap
to move quickly, forcefully, or destructively.

6. (n.) zap
force, energy, or drive; zip.

7.  zap
a jolt or charge, as of electricity.

8.  zap
a forceful and sudden blow, hit, or attack.

9.  zap
any of a variety of methods of political activism, usu. of a disruptive nature.

Etymology: (1940–45; imit.)

Definition of 'zap'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) zap
a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact
"they gave it another zap of radiation"

2. (verb) zap
strike suddenly and with force
"This show zaps the viewers with some shocking scenes"

3. (verb) zap, vaporize
kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
"in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens"

4. (verb) nuke, atomize, atomise, zap
strike at with firepower or bombs
"zap the enemy"

5. (verb) microwave, micro-cook, zap, nuke
cook or heat in a microwave oven
"You can microwave the leftovers"

Definition of 'zap'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) zap
to destroy or make disappear
You have to zap the little creatures as they cross the screen.

Definitions of 'zap'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. zap
1. n. Spiciness.

2. vt. To make food spicy.

3. vt. To make someone ‘suffer’ by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.) See zapped.

4. vt. To modify, usually to correct; esp. used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool. Also implies surgical precision. “Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again.” In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs or to the OS with a program called ‘superzap’, whose file name is ‘IMASPZAP’ (possibly contrived from I M A SuPerZAP).

5. vt. To erase or reset.

6. To fry a chip with static electricity. “Uh oh — I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk controller.”

Translation of 'zap'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to kill or destroy, especially in a computer game.
Afrikaans: dood	Arabic: يَقْتُل، يُدَمِّر	Bulgarian: убивам
Brazilian: destruir	Czech: odprásknout, odstřelit	German: ausschalten
Danish: udslette	Greek: καταστρέφω, σκοτώνω (π.χ.	Spanish: cargarse
Estonian: maha laskma, hävitama	Farsi: زدن؛ درب و داغان کردن	Finnish: nitistää
French: tuer; détruire; supprimer	Hebrew: לֵחַסֵל, לְהַשמִיד	Hindi: कम्प्यूटर के खेल में हत्य
Croatian: slistiti	Hungarian: lelő	Indonesian: menghancurkan dalam game
Italian: eliminare	Japanese: （とくにコンピューターゲームで）画面から消す	Korean: 죽이다, 없애다
Lithuanian: nudëti, nuðauti	Latvian: sakaut; iznīcināt (dators	Malay: membunuh
Dutch: vernietigen, schieten op	Norwegian: tilintetgjøre	Polish: zniszczyć
Persian: زدن؛ درب و داغان کردن	Pashto: وهل	Russian: убить, уничтожить; укокош
Slovak: odbachnúť	Slovenian: zbrisati	Serbian: ubiti
Swedish: döda, knäppa, träffa	Thai: ฆ่าหรือทำลาย (โดยเฉพาะในเ	Turkish: (vurarak)öldürmek
Taiwanese: (尤指電腦遊戲) 殺害，摧毀	Ukrainian: убити	Urdu: مار ڈالنا یا تباہ کر دینا
Vietnamese: hạ gục	Chinese: （尤指电脑游戏）攻击，打败
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