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- English Word Torpedo Definition Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
- English Word Torpedo Definition An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.
- English Word Torpedo Definition A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.
- English Word Torpedo Definition A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.
- English Word Torpedo Definition A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it.
- English Word Torpedo Definition A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal.
- English Word Torpedo Definition An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.
- English Word Torpedo Definition A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
- English Word Torpedo Definition to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.
- English Word Torpedoes Definition of Torpedo
- English Word Torpent Definition Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid.
- English Word Torpescence Definition The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity.
- English Word Torpid Definition Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.
- English Word Torpid Definition Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive.
- English Word Torpidity Definition Same as Torpidness.
- English Word Torpidly Definition In a torpid manner.
- English Word Torpidness Definition The qualityy or state of being torpid.
- English Word Torpified Definition of Torpify
- English Word Torpify Definition To make torpid; to numb, or benumb.
- English Word Torpifying Definition of Torpify