Synonyms of the word

torpedo

• n. (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
• n. A fish having wings that generate electric current, a kind of electric ray.
• n. (regional) A submarine sandwich.
• n. (archaic, military) A naval mine.
• n. (obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications,…
• n. (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
• n. (rail transport, US) a small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning…
• n. A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
• n. An automobile with a torpedo body.
• v. To send a torpedo, usually from a submarine, that explodes below the waterline of the target ship.
• v. To sink a ship with one of more torpedoes.
• v. To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a stealthy, powerful attack.

alarm

• n. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
• n. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention;…
• n. A sudden attack; disturbance.
• n. Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly,…
• n. A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
• n. An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
• v. (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
• v. (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger.
• v. (transitive) To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
• v. (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil;…
• v. (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.

alarum

• n. (archaic) A danger signal or warning.
• n. A call to arms.
• v. (archaic) To sound alarums, to sound an alarm.

alert

• adj. Attentive; awake; on guard.
• adj. (obsolete) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
• n. An alarm.
• n. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
• v. To give warning to.

armament

• n. A body of forces equipped for war.
• n. (military, naval) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship…
• n. Any equipment for resistance.
• n. The process of building up military capacity.

assail

• v. To attack violently using words or force.

attack

• n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
• n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
• n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
• n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
• n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
• n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
• n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
• n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
• n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
• n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
• v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
• v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
• v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
• v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

bomber

• n. A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
• n. A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.
• n. A bomber jacket.
• n. (US) A 22-ounce beer bottle.
• adj. (climbing, slang) Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear (n.b…

crampfish

• n. The torpedo, or electric ray, whose touch gives an electric shock.

firework

• n. A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames,…

grinder

• n. One who grinds something, such as the teeth.
• n. (anatomical) A molar.
• n. A power tool with a spinning abrasive disc, used for grinding, smoothing, and shaping materials, usually…
• n. (US, regional) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
• n. A kitchen gadget for processing coffee, herbs etc. into small or powdered pieces.
• n. The restless flycatcher (Seisura inquieta) of Australia, which makes a noise like a scissors grinder.
• n. (music, slang) A fan or performer of grindcore music.

gun

• n. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
• n. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
• n. (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed…
• n. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
• n. (colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
• n. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
• v. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
• v. To speed something up.
• v. To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.
• v. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.
• v. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
• v. Nonstandard spelling of going to.

gunman

• n. A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer.

gunslinger

• n. In the Old West: a person who carried a gun and was an expert at the quick draw.
• n. In modern usage: a person who behaves with the bravado expected of someone who would duel with guns.

hero

• n. Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary deeds.
• n. A role model.
• n. The main protagonist in a work of fiction.
• n. (poker) The current player, especially an hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare:…
• n. (US) A large sandwich made from meats and cheeses; a hero sandwich.
• n. (food styling, chiefly attributive) The product chosen from several candidates to be photographed.

hitman

• n. A contract killer; especially one paid by mafia.
• n. (soccer) goalscorer, someone who scores goals.

hoagie

• n. (US, central and eastern Pennsylvania) A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll; a submarine…

hoagy

• n. Alternative form of hoagie.

liquidator

• n. One who liquidates.
• n. One supporting the political policy of liquidationism; a liquidationist.
• n. Any of the workers involved in cleaning up the Chernobyl disaster.

manslayer

• n. Someone who commits manslaughter.

murderer

• n. A person who commits murder.

numbfish

• n. (zoology) An electric ray of the family Narcinidae, capable of delivering numbing shocks.

pyrotechnic

• adj. Of or relating to fireworks.
• adj. Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy.
• adj. Resembling fireworks.
• adj. Of or relating to pyrotechny.

ray

• n. A beam of light or radiation.
• n. (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
• n. (zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
• n. (botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an…
• n. (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded…
• n. (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
• n. (colloquial) A tiny amount.
• v. (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
• v. (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
• n. A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
• v. (obsolete) To arrange.
• v. (now rare) To dress, array (someone).
• v. (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
• n. The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
• n. (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
• n. (music) Alternative form of re.

sandwich

• n. A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other…
• n. (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other…
• n. (Britain) A layer cake or sandwich cake.
• v. To place one item between two other, usually flat, items.
• v. (figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
• adj. (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

shooter

• n. Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer etc.
• n. (slang) A firearm.
• n. A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
• n. (professional wrestling slang) A professional wrestler who uses actual fighting moves as part of his style,…
• n. A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
• n. An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
• n. A shooting star.

sub

• n. A submarine.
• n. A submarine sandwich—a sandwich made on a long bun.
• n. (US, informal) A substitute.
• n. (Britain, informal) A substitute in a football (soccer) game: someone who comes on in place of another…
• n. (Britain, informal, often in plural) A subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.
• n. (informal) A submissive in BDSM practices.
• n. (Internet, informal) A subtitle.
• n. (computing, programming) A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from…
• n. (colloquial) A subeditor.
• n. (colloquial) A subcontractor.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A subordinate.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A subaltern.
• v. (US, informal) To substitute for.
• v. (US, informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
• v. (Britain, informal, soccer) To replace (a player) with a substitute.
• v. (Britain, informal, soccer) Less commonly, and often as sub on, to bring on (a player) as a substitute.
• v. (Britain) To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
• v. (Britain, slang, transitive) To lend.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To subscribe.
• v. (BDSM) To take a submissive role.
• prep. Under.
• v. To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
• v. (microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with an layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.

submarine

• adj. Undersea.
• adj. Hidden or undisclosed.
• adj. (baseball) Of a pitch, thrown with the hand lower than the elbow.
• n. A boat that can go underwater.
• n. A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread.
• n. (baseball) Pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
• n. Any submarine plant or animal.
• n. (informal) A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.
• v. To operate or serve on a submarine.
• v. To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.

triggerman

• n. (US slang) A hired gunman; a bodyguard.

wedge

• n. One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered…
• n. A piece (of food, etc.) having this shape.
• n. (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting…
• n. (figuratively) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
• n. (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted…
• n. (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
• n. A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
• n. One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
• n. (colloquial, Britain) A quantity of money.
• n. (typography, US) háček.
• n. (phonetics) The IPA character <ʌ>, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
• n. (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
• n. (meteorology) a wedge tornado.
• v. To support or secure using a wedge.
• v. To force into a narrow gap.
• v. To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
• v. (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
• n. (Britain, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical…

zep

• n. (US, dialectal) A certain type of submarine sandwich.