torpedo
(tɔːʳpiːdoʊ )
Word forms: torpedoes , torpedoing , torpedoed
1. countable noun
A torpedo is bomb that is shaped like a tube and that travels under water.
2. verb [usually passive]
If a ship is torpedoed, it is hit, and usually sunk, by a torpedo or torpedoes.
More than a thousand people died when the Lusitania was torpedoed. [be VERB-ed]
3. verb
If someone torpedoes negotiations or plans, they deliberately prevent them from being completed or from being successful. [informal]
These attacks are seen as an effort to torpedo the talks. [VERB noun]
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Collocations:
torpedo strikes
As he made his way to the bridge through dark clouds of acrid smoke, a second torpedo struck the ship.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The torpedo struck opposite number three hold -- and there were over 200 men confined in that one narrow space.
THE LONELY SEA (1997)
It seems rather dubious as to whether a second torpedo struck the ship.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Translations:
Chinese: 鱼雷, 用鱼雷袭击
Japanese: 水雷, 水雷で攻撃する
- valid justification
- valid licence
- valid opinion
- valid passport
- valid permit
- valid point
- valid proof
- valid question
- valid reason
- valid signature
- valid ticket
- valid visa
- valid vote
- Valium
- valley
- valley floor
- valley view
- valor
- valour
- valuable
- valuable addition
- valuable advice
- valuable ally
- valuable antique
- valuable artefacts