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- Dictionarytorpedo/tɔːˈpiːdəʊ/
noun
- 1. 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.
- 2. an electric ray.
verb
- 1. attack or sink (a ship) with a torpedo or torpedoes: "the liner was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine"
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TORPEDO definition: 1. a long, thin bomb that travels underwater in order to destroy the ship at which it is aimed 2…. Learn more.
: a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as. a. : a submarine mine. b. : a thin cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile. 2. : a small firework that explodes when thrown against a hard object. 3. : electric ray. 4. : a professional gunman or assassin. 5. : submarine entry 2 sense 2. torpedo. 2 of 2.
Torpedo definition: a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines..
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.
A torpedo is a type of missile or bomb fired underwater. To torpedo is to attack with torpedoes. Torpedoes are cigar-shaped projectiles that are used to attack other submarines or boats. The word torpedo comes from the name of a kind of electric ray that numbs you with its sting (torpediniformes).
A cigar-shaped, self-propelled underwater projectile launched from a submarine, aircraft, or ship and designed to detonate on contact with or in the vicinity of a target. 2. Any of various submarine explosive devices, especially a submarine mine. 3.
Jun 14, 2024 · From English torpedo, borrowed from Latin torpēdō (“ a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray ”), from torpeō (“ I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive ”) + -ēdō (noun suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-(“ stiff ”).
