depth charge

NOUN

anti-submarine bomb that explodes at a preset depth under water

Synonyms

WEAK

ash can blockbuster depth bomb

Example Sentences

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Navy dropped a depth charge on a Soviet submarine.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

His depth charge explosives were the first to be dropped from a helicopter targeting a submarine since World War II.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2022

DeBoer will stress to the candidates to concentrate on their progress and not how they stand on the thus-far hypothetical depth charge.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022

The water explodes like a depth charge has just gone off, and he emerges covered in suds, somehow having avoided fracturing his tail bone, like a legend.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2021

I didn’t have time to react, so each pan torpedoed into the blue water and, like a depth charge, held on for a moment before blowing up in my face.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya