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  • noun Alternative spelling of death ray.

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Examples

  • In issue #3, the hero confronts the villain as the villain tries to pick up some intermediate Macguffin, like the diamonds he needs to power his death-ray or whatever.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Comic Book Writing Tip of the Day: Sell the Next Issue 2009

  • Orgy-of-destruction flicks such as Mars Attacks! and Independence Day always point at least one death-ray at the Hollywood sign or the Capitol Records building.

    LA gets blown up once again in Battle: Los Angeles 2011

  • His eyes flashed up from the open book to stare at her again, a toned-down version of his death-ray glare.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • His eyes flashed up from the open book to stare at her again, a toned-down version of his death-ray glare.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • The Supreme Dalek sends a death-ray Jack's way and he screams in pain and falls to the floor, apparently dead.

    Archive 2009-12-27 Toby O'B 2010

  • At that rate, how long could it be before I can finance my death-ray construction plans?

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • His eyes flashed up from the open book to stare at her again, a toned-down version of his death-ray glare.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • The Supreme Dalek sends a death-ray Jack's way and he screams in pain and falls to the floor, apparently dead.

    THE MEA CULPA ORATORIO Toby O'B 2010

  • Until the issue of LGBT equality moves beyond dueling bible verses and slinging death-ray one liners about who has the superior scholarship, there will be little progress made in obtaining under civil law the rights and benefits for which LGBT citizens are paying taxes.

    Rep. Sally Kern Rants in a One Woman Show 2008

  • While he gave demonstrations of some of his earlier marvels - his exhibition of a radio-guided teleautomatic boat filled Madison Square Garden in 1898 - he became oracular in his later years and, for example, offered no proof of the potent "death-ray" that he announced in 1934, on his seventy-eighth birthday.

    Tesla, Nikola 2008

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