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Synonyms for zap

The synonym for zap recorded in this bank is nuke, in the sense "strike at with firepower or bombs". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb

The synonym for zap

nukeverb, in the sense "strike at with firepower or bombs"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and zap carries one sense so far.

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineCompetition

strike at with firepower or bombs

Zap the enemy.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

nuke

Same sentence, swapped: Nuke the enemy.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where zap stands in the sentence above.

shell
firebomb
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Where zap turns up in the game

zap is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play zap

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so zap reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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