English-Portuguese translations for torpedo

• torpedo
  E o relatório não é um torpedo.And this report is not a torpedo.
  Desta vez, a razão é o naufrágio de um navio sul-coreano, um acidente causado por um torpedo norte-coreano, como provou o Grupo de Investigação Conjunta. This time, the reason is a sunken South Korean ship, an accident caused by the North Korean torpedo, a fact proved by the Joint Investigation Group.
  A explosão em águas territoriais disputadas ocorreu fora do casco do navio, e não no seu interior, e foram encontrados fragmentos de um torpedo norte-coreano no fundo do mar perto da fragata afundada. The explosion in disputed waters was outside the hull, not inside, and the remains of a North Korean torpedo were found on the seabed near the sunken frigate.
• torpedear
  Todavia, é bastante diferente empreender uma acção precisamente para se salvar o processo de paz e empreender uma acção terrorista para o torpedear.But there is a difference between taking action precisely to save the peace process or taking terrorist action to torpedo it.
  Durante meses, algumas empresas químicas procuraram torpedear uma medida já há muito necessária para o ambiente e a saúde pública. For months, a number of chemical companies have tried to torpedo a measure that has been necessary for the environment and public health for a long time.
  O fim do artigo é igualmente digno de nota: os opositores do gasoduto tencionam torpedear toda a operação utilizando munições afundadas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. The end of the article is also noteworthy - the opponents of the gas pipeline plan to torpedo the whole operation using ammunition sunk during the Second World War.

Definition of torpedo

• An electric ray of the genus ''Torpedo''
• A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon
• A naval mine
• A professional gunman or assassin
• A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object
• a woman's shoe with a pointed toe
• a marijuana cigarette
• To send a torpedo, usually from a submarine, that explodes below the waterline of the target ship
• To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a stealthy, powerful attack

Synonyms

• sub

Related words

• torpedoing
• antitorpedo
• torpedo boat
• torpedo tube
• torpedo bomber
• torpedo ray
• torpedo man
• torpedo launcher
• photon torpedo