Torpedo Synonyms, Torpedo Antonyms

Synonyms for torpedo

noun murderer of prominent or important person

Antonyms for torpedo

victim

assassin

noun. murderer of prominent or important person

Word Origin & History

1520s, "electric ray," from Latin torpedo, originally "numbness" (from the effect of being jolted by the ray's electric discharges), from torpere "be numb" (see torpor). The sense of "explosive device used to blow up enemy ships" is first recorded 1776, as a floating mine; the self-propelled version is from 1860s.

Example Sentences for torpedo

This time the Majestic was taken as the target for a torpedo and she went down.

He grabbed a handful of shirt on the first torpedo and poked his face down.

If he could get close enough he might be able to use his torpedo tubes.

The Arethusa had also come up and prepared (p. 256) to launch a torpedo.

With what torpedo chill have you touched the sinews of that manly arm?

Meno complains that the conversation of Socrates has the effect of a torpedo's shock upon him.

He has had the 'torpedo's shock' given him, and is the better for the operation.

By a torpedo, then, which could be launched some distance away?

From this place our aviators returned to Sebastopol on a torpedo boat.

When a torpedo is lowered into the sea, the wound it makes in the water is soon healed.

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Synonyms for torpedo

Antonyms for torpedo

abrogating

ammunition

assassin

blast

blasting

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Antonyms for torpedo

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abrogating

ammunition

assassin

blast

blasting

Synonyms for torpedo

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