torpedo
127
6.4
- noun
- /tɔrˈpiːdoʊ/
- Specialized
:
torpedo
- Most of the torpedo damage to the fleet had occurred by 8:25 a.m.
- torpedo plane
- torpedo attack
- one torpedo
Pearl Harbor, the guns are firing, the torpedoes are launched, the bombs are dropping.
- Pearl Harbor, the guns are firing, the torpedoes are launched, the bombs are dropping.
- Now both shot torpedoes at each other, but only EU five hit its target.
- And they had that was every feature that a Russian torpedo would have in terms of the constant bearing decreasing range at a very rapid rate.
- They would usually stuff the torpedo with dynamite, but sometimes they would pour liquid nitroglycerin into this thing, this tube.
- They go down, they're headed towards a big rock in the middle like a torpedo.
Examples
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The SS James Oglethorpe was damaged by a submarine torpedo and sank in the South Atlantic in March 1943.
Academic text (2009) -
The military tested a new type of torpedo designed for underwater combat.
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But if that was really a torpedo, then what can that sea monster really be?
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The British will think it's a Chinese aerial torpedo.
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As soon as she received her torpedo hits, she began listing rapidly to port.
Academic text (1991) -
I was a gunner on a torpedo boat.
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That same day the liner Arabia was sunk by torpedoes off the Greek coast.
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The Raleigh was struck by one torpedo, and the Utah received two hits in succession, capsizing at 8:13 a.m.
Academic text (1991) -
The submarine launched a torpedo towards the enemy vessel during the exercise.
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After detecting the target, the crew prepared to fire a torpedo from the launch tube.
Synonyms
1
9.1
A weapon released from a plane that moves under water to hit ships or submarines
A long underwater weapon fired by a submarine to hit ships
An underwater weapon that moves by itself and is steered by a wire from the ship that fired it
A weapon that finds and follows an enemy ship or submarine using sound
A large underwater weapon with a very powerful explosive charge that submarines use to attack ships
A large underwater weapon launched from submarines with a very powerful warhead to sink big ships
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.3
A small fast military boat that fires underwater bombs near the coast
- Specialized
1
9.1
A weapon released from a plane that moves under water to hit ships or submarines
- Specialized
A long metal tube filled with explosives used to make a safe path through barbed wire or mines
- Specialized
A large underwater weapon launched from submarines with a very powerful warhead to sink big ships
- Specialized
A large underwater weapon with a very powerful explosive charge that submarines use to attack ships
- Specialized
A weapon that finds and follows an enemy ship or submarine using sound
- Archaic
A small navy ship that protects larger ships by attacking fast boats with torpedoes
- Specialized
An underwater weapon that moves by itself and is steered by a wire from the ship that fired it
How Powerful
- Specialized
45
5.1
- Specialized
- Specialized
127
6.4
- Specialized
- Specialized
20
4.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Torpedo comes from the Latin word torpere, which means 'to be numb'. It was first used for an electric ray that could 'numb' or stun fish, and later the name was given to the long underwater weapon that can stun or destroy ships.