depth charge

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   a bomb that explodes at a preset depth under water; antisubmarine device

   Synonymsdepth bomb

   Broaderbomb

Questions about depth charge

What does depth charge mean?

depth charge means "a bomb that explodes at a preset depth under water; antisubmarine device".

What is another word for depth charge?

Close synonyms include depth bomb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is depth charge a common word?

depth charge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.