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depth charge

NOUN
anti-submarine bomb that explodes at a preset depth under water
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Navy dropped a depth charge on a Soviet submarine.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

DeBoer will stress to the candidates to concentrate on their progress and not how they stand on the thus-far hypothetical depth charge.

From Seattle Times Mar. 29, 2022

The water explodes like a depth charge has just gone off, and he emerges covered in suds, somehow having avoided fracturing his tail bone, like a legend.

From Slate Jun. 22, 2021

The release of the Rapinoe interview during the last week of June was a journalistic depth charge timed for maximum impact.

From The Guardian Dec. 24, 2019

The giant’s laughter echoed like a detonating depth charge.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan



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