depth charge

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A form of bomb, launched from a ship or dropped from an aircraft, that is designed to detonate at a certain depth underwater for the purposes of attacking a submerged enemy, especially a submarine.
    — The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.
  2. Synonym of bomb shot (“type of mixed drink”).
动词 v.
  1. To attack (a target, usually a submarine) with depth charges. transitive
    — After the freighter was torpedoed, its escorting destroyers depth charged the submarine for two hours, but failed to sink it.

词形变化

depth charges plural depth charges present,singular,third-person depth charging participle,present depth charged participle,past depth charged past depth-charge alternative
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