Skip to main content

kamikaze

/kah-mi-kah-zee/US // ˌkɑ mɪˈkɑ zi //UK // (ˌkæmɪˈkɑːzɪ) //

神风特攻队,神风队,神风敢死队,神风队员

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship.
    • : an airplane used for this purpose.
    • : a person or thing that behaves in a wildly reckless or destructive manner: We were nearly run down by a kamikaze on a motorcycle.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, pertaining to, undertaken by, or characteristic of a kamikaze: a kamikaze pilot; a kamikaze attack.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Rubio blew it with immigration, and as for Cruz, I think even most Republicans see that that would be a kamikaze mission.

  • Expecting people to watch gay men not do that much for half an hour is oddly kamikaze television-making.

  • The ship was hurried into action and survived multiple kamikaze attacks as well as being torpedoed.

  • One can only dream, then, of the kamikaze damage Newt can inflict if he keeps his promise to continue fighting to the convention.

  • Following the debate, the Romney campaign blasted Gingrich for his vengeful “kamikaze mission.”

  • It had been kamikaze stuff, though there'd been a theoretical chance of the thirty men escaping, to justify sending them out.

  • He had some of the characteristics of a kamikaze pilot, too, because there was no telling if he'd get back from his mission.