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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

Flying from Lincolnshire at tree-top height, 19 planes with seven-man crews braved anti-aircraft fire, power cables and mountainous terrain to drop the extraordinary four-tonne skipping depth charge.

From BBC • Aug. 27, 2013

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

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan



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