I. noun
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A number of motor torpedo boats were also brought in to be employed for short-range coastal patrol and night attack missions.
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Captain Nagumo, an expert in torpedo warfare, was the right man in the right place.
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I can't raise the forward torpedo compartment.
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Next to me a girl eating a box of liquorice torpedoes.
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Pearl Harbor had impressed on us the importance of protecting ships against torpedo attacks, even in home waters.
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The torpedoes had burst harmlessly, many kilometres away.
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Two of the torpedoes struck below the waterline on the port side near the aviation fuel tanks.
II. verb
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The CEO torpedoed the deal in its final hours.
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The Dutch ship was torpedoed by an enemy submarine in March of 1942.
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Aron has accused Brock of conspiring with his campaign staff to torpedo her candidacy by labeling her a criminal.
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As might be expected, however, the military brass sounded battle stations and eventually torpedoed the idea.
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But the grand design was torpedoed when Lord Hanson made a bid for Imperial that shareholders found impossible to resist.
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Panicky Western politicians know that an economic golden age was torpedoed once before by rising oil prices.
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We were to fly across, which suited me, as I had a morbid fear of being torpedoed at sea.