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depth charge
noun
A form of bomb that is designed to detonate at a certain depth underwater for the purposes of attacking a submerged enemy, especially a submarine.
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Exact(51)
Greek sculpture hit like a depth charge.
Here's a unique depth charge.
It is a depth charge to the theatre.
In 1960, for example, the team dropped a depth charge into waters off Australia.
MAD was almost as significant a cultural depth charge of the nineteen-fifties as Elvis was.
machine guns and a depth charge or two into the sea, but no men were lost.
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Three depth-charge chutes were fitted, each with a capacity of two depth charges.
Last Christmas, Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen smouldered in a depth-charge Richard Eyre television production.
But there is more to it than the depth-charge effect of great drama.
His depth-charge basslines may be augmented by electronics, but they are still powerful enough to sculpt ear wax.
In World War II, many submarines went down, some with crews terrorized through relentless depth-charge attacks.
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