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[ yoo-boht ] / ˈyuˌboʊt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR U-boat ON THESAURUS.COM
Origin of U-boat1910–15; <German U-Boot, short for Unterseeboot literally, undersea boat Words nearby U-boatubiquitin, ubiquitous, ubiquity, ubi sunt, ubi supra, U-boat, U-boats, U bolt, UBR, Ubuntu, UBV photometry Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for U-boatProminent among those struggles was the battle of the Atlantic, waged against the U-boat menace. D-Day Was The Largest And One Of The Bloodiest Invasions In History|James A. Warren|June 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST I suspect that the production stopped short of plagiarism, but it probably sailed very close to the U-boat. The Fascist Historian and Me|Guy Walters|January 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST He died in 1941, just 35, after a German U-Boat torpedoed the ship on which he was sailing as a BBC correspondent to Cairo. The Grand Tour in Style: Robert Byron’s ‘Europe in the Looking-Glass’|Malcolm Forbes|November 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST If he spotted a U-boat, not only would he call for backup, he wanted to attack the sub himself. Just the Fact: Hemingway's Hand Grenades|Terry Mort|September 2, 2009|DAILY BEAST
We seem just to have struck the peak of the midsummer U-boat campaign. Sea-Hounds|Lewis R. Freeman Captain Hassan was taken aboard the U-boat, and no further knowledge of his fate has been received. Lest We Forget|John Gilbert Thompson Our moderate estimators here put it down as three, with one transport ramming and sinking one U-boat. The U-boat hunters|James B. Connolly Other U-boat commanders would appear off the hunting grounds and attack ships in more or less easy-going fashion. The Victory At Sea|William Sowden Sims The uniform and underclothes were almost as wet as when Alec had arrived on board the U-boat. The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge|Percy F. Westerman
British Dictionary definitions for U-boat
nouna German submarine, esp in World Wars I and II Word Origin for U-boatfrom German U-Boot, abbreviation for Unterseeboot, literally: undersea boat Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |