Usually means: Destroyed or disrupted suddenly, effectively.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word torpedoed:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. torpedoed: Merriam-Webster
  2. torpedoed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. torpedoed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. torpedoed: Vocabulary.com
  5. Torpedoed, torpedoed: Wordnik
  6. torpedoed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. torpedoed: Wiktionary
  8. torpedoed: Dictionary.com
  9. torpedoed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. torpedoed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. torpedoed: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. torpedoed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. torpedoed: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. torpedoed: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See torpedo as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (torpedo)

noun:  (zoology) An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
noun:  (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
noun:  (science fiction) A similar projectile that can travel through space.
noun:  (Northeastern US) A submarine sandwich.
noun:  (archaic, military) A naval mine.
noun:  (obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry; a land torpedo.
noun:  (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
noun:  (rail transport, US) A small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
noun:  A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
noun:  (historical) An automobile with a streamlined profile and a folding or detachable soft top, and having the hood or bonnet line raised to be level with the car's waistline, resulting in a straight beltline from front to back.
noun:  (neuroscience) A focal ovoid swelling on the axons of Purkinje cells, observed in several diseases such as essential tremor and spinocerebellar ataxia.
noun:  (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A woman's shoe with a pointed toe.
noun:  (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A large breast; a breast with a large nipple.
noun:  (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
noun:  A thick marijuana cigarette.
noun:  A cigarette containing marijuana and crack cocaine.
verb:  (transitive) To strike (a ship) with one or more torpedoes.
verb:  (transitive) To sink (a ship) with one or more torpedoes.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a powerful attack.
▸ Also see torpedo


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