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>    How about 'nuke'.  Has the right amount of wry humor, esp. in the
> politically correct Bay Area.
> 
> Steve U.

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     I've heard some of the programmers around here use 'nuke' to mean
'destroy', as in "the program nuked the file-system".
For 'microwave', I've heard 'wave' used as a verb.
But then, I refer to ice cubes as "thermal attenuators".

                     Kchula-Rrit