Build and Torpedo

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Build verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.

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Torpedo is an antonym for build.

Nearby Words: built, building, buildup, builder

Torpedo verb - Attack or hit with torpedoes.

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Build is an antonym for torpedo in topics: attack, beat, demolish, ruin, weaken.

Nearby Words: torpedoed, torpedoing

Being gutsy as she is, Rose instead creates a daring plan to build a makeshift torpedo, sail down the river (which no one has ever done) and take out the Königin Luise, a ship patrolling the German-controlled lake that is the only thing standing in the way of the British army.

Source: Film / The African Queen
The Mighty Glacier trend is exemplified by Pacifier and Admonisher: other folk build superiority fighters by moving from basic fighters up and equip them with a pair of Heavy weapons and one torpedo, but not Purists.

Source: Video Game / Vega Strike

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Torpedo and Build. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/torpedo

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