Help and Torpedo

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Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Torpedo is an antonym for help.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

Torpedo verb - Attack or hit with torpedoes.

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Help is an antonym for torpedo in topics: attack, break, demolish, ruin, cancel.

Nearby Words: torpedoed, torpedoing

The Japanese fighters and torpedo bombers in the actual attack are incorrectly painted dark green—primarily to help distinguish them from their American counterparts.

Source: Film / Pearl Harbor
It doesn't help that the EMHs accidentally fire a torpedo at a Defiant-class ship.

Source: Cavalry Betrayal
This doesn't, however, help too much if your wingman flies right into the path of the torpedo you just launched, resulting in an insta-kill of said idiot and everyone else declaring you a traitor, in all but the very first game.

Source: Video Game / Wing Commander

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