torpedo

[US]/tɔː'piːdəʊ/
[UK]/tɔr'pido/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. underwater missile; explosive device for destroying submarines and ships; explosive device used for oil well drilling
vt. to destroy; to attack with a torpedo

Phrases & Collocations

launch a torpedo

anti-submarine torpedo

homing torpedo

Example Sentences

torpedo efforts at reform.

The torpedoed battleship went down.

He was accused of trying to torpedo the talks.

shaped like a torpedo, long and thin.

the torpedo's sensor pod contains a television camera.

fighting between the militias torpedoed peace talks.

rescued sailors from a torpedoed ship.

Was American opinion really as “galvanised” by the torpedoing of the Lusitania as by Pearl Harbour and September 11th 2001?

The area of target scatterance varies with target angle, and it gets its minimum.However, the hunt cingulum formed by the two acoustic homing torpedoes can always shroud the target scatterance.

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