kamikaze

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /ˌkæ.mɪˈkɑː.zi/

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Noun

Singular kamikaze

Plural kamikazes

1. (countable) Kamikaze is an attack that requires the suicide of the person carrying out the attack. It is usually done with an aircraft.
2. A kamikaze is the person who carried out such an attack.

Verb

Plain form kamikaze

Third-person singular kamikazes

Past tense kamikazed

Past participle kamikazed

Present participle kamikazeing

1. (transitive) If you kamikaze something, you destroy it in a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft into it.
2. (intransitive) If you kamikaze, you carry out a suicide attack by crashing an aircraft.