Torpedo is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TORPEDO in dictionary:

VERB:
• to attack with a torpedo
• attack or sink (a ship) with a torpedo or torpedoes
• destroy or ruin (a plan or project)
• to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.
• attack or hit with torpedoes
• attack or destroy with or as if with torpedoes
NOUN:
• a self-propelled submarine missile, usually cigar-shaped, designed to explode on impact with a target
• a cigar-shaped self-propelled underwater missile designed to be fired from a ship or submarine or dropped into the water from an aircraft and to explode on reaching a target.
• a firework that explodes on impact with a hard surface.
• a railway fog signal.
• an electric ray.
• Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
• An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.
• A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.
• A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.
• A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it.
• A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal.
• An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.
• A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
• a professional killer who uses a gun
• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
• an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas)
• a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface
• a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead
• armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target
• any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges
• self-propelled underwater missile
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to damage or sink with an underwater missile

Words related to TORPEDO

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Words that contain TORPEDO

torpedos11 torpedoed13 torpedoer12 torpedoes12 torpedoers13 torpedoing14 torpedoist13 torpedoists14

How to use TORPEDO in a sentence

• Two or three cruisers and a couple of torpedo boats.
• Twelve 24-pounders and four torpedo tubes completed its armament.
• Going toward her, I observed a torpedo coming for my ship, but could not discern a submarine.
• The steamer Para picked up a raft aboard which were three German survivors from the torpedo boat V-48.
• By this means a torpedo may be controlled after it has left the shore and may be directed in any direction as long as it is within sight.
• Her body was like a torpedo in a blue one piece suit.
• Copeman showed several models of the latest types of their life saving apparatus, both for use on torpedo boats and passenger steamers.
• A rakish-looking gray car resembling a giant torpedo was approaching slowly from the direction of Buckingham Palace.
• The parts of another torpedo were afterwards picked up, it evidently having exploded somewhere down below.
• Plans for the greater navy were first outlined about 1882, but for a period of seven years not a battleship was built, concentration being placed upon the torpedo boat.
• It looked for the moment as though the torpedo would pass astern.
• This fragment bore the mark of the German navy, telling just when the torpedo was made and to which of the U-boats it had been issued.
• They became fast friends, the ex-President taking much interest in torpedo work, and they frequently made quiet experiments at isolated places down the river.
• It did not take Paul long to arrange the preliminaries and before he left, a contract was made by which he was to enter the Peruvian torpedo service, with a commision of Captain.
• A Chilean man-of-war, the Amazonas, was anchored at Panama on the lookout for a torpedo launch that was expected to arrive for the Peruvian government from New York.
• He put on his dress and taking a one hundred pound torpedo in tow, paddled out as carefully as possible until he saw her head toward him.
• The crew displayed signs of nervousness at running so close to the dreaded torpedo boats of the enemy, and it was with some difficulty he kept them close at work.
• When you and the ship and your torpedo and the water are all moving in different ways you can see that hitting is not so easy.
• Another minute and a second torpedo struck and exploded.
• He was hurled by the explosion of the torpedo into the corridor and dashed against the wall.
• The torpedo also abounds in the river about Cassan, and at first caused not a little terror and amazement to the crew.
• As soon as a torpedo was discharged the bulb corresponding with the empty tube faded out.
• For a moment he debated the idea of releasing a torpedo that might be noticed by the crew of the unknown vessel.
• But to make doubly sure he ordered the discharge of a torpedo from the lower starboard chamber.
• He was therefore forced to torpedo the Conciliation Bill, to snatch away the half-loaf that was better than no bread at all.

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