Crossword-Solution: TORPEDOES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Torpedoes | pl. | of Torpedo |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TORPEDOES | anagram | DEEPROOTS |
We have 11 clues for the answer “TORPEDOES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Damn the ___! Full speed ahead!" | 1 answer |
| Destroys totally | 1 answer |
| Farragut's famous phrase, "Damn the ___!" | 1 answer |
| Fireworks for sidewalk celebrators. | 1 answer |
| Nixes, as a plan | 1 answer |
| Sinks, as a proposal | 1 answer |
| What Farragut damned | 1 answer |
| Wrecks, as chances | 1 answer |
| Projectiles | 2 answers |
| Undermines | 7 answers |
| ammunition | 43 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TORPEDOES (5)
Harney showed no inclination to move, for hot as their corner was, it was at least shaded and quiet; and, from the main thoroughfares came the clanging of trolleys, the incessant popping of torpedoes, the jingle of street-organs, the bawling of megaphone men and the loud murmur of increasing crowds.
Talk about torpedoes, and he would catch up a pencil, and on the back of an old envelope from his pocket he would sketch out some novel contrivance for piercing a ship’s netting and getting at her side, which might no doubt involve some technical impossibility, but which would at least be quite plausible and new.
The fortifications on the heights mounted guns much heavier than those on the men-of-war, and shots from these fired from an elevation might sink even those "underwater devils." But, more than on the forts, they relied upon their admirable system of torpedoes and submarine batteries.
And it was to be used, remember—used a week or two later, with great guns and swift torpedoes, suddenly in the darkness of a summer night.
Snoop and Fluffy too came in for a scare, for Freddie tossed a couple of torpedoes on the kitchen hearth where the kittens were sleeping.
Quotes with TORPEDOES (3)
To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.
Dear Hunger Games :Screw you for helping cowards pretend you have to be great with a bow to fight evil. You don't need to be drafted into a monkey-infested jungle to fight evil. You don't need your father's light sabre, or to be bitten by a radioactive spider. You don't need to be stalked by a creepy ancient vampire who is basically a pedophile if you're younger than a redwood. Screw you mainstream media for making it look like moral courage requires hair gel, thousands of si…
Room 40 knew a U-boat was heading south to Liverpool - knew the boat's history; knew that it was now somewhere in the North Atlantic under orders to sink troop transports and any other British vessel it encountered; and knew as well that the submarine was armed with enough shells and torpedoes to sink a dozen ships.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1951–2022).