1. Synonyms for Barraging include bombarding, blitzing, attacking, bombing, shelling, cannonading, battering, pounding, blasting and torpedoing

2. Modi, by contrast, is doing worse than expected – even torpedoing a long-anticipated Word Trade Organization agreement.

3. This international blockbuster dispelled the idea of the clean cut, mechanical German u-boat captain meticulously and ruthlessly torpedoing crying babies in the water.

4. Operation Bigot also misses several abortions, notably in April 1944 during the full-scale rehearsal of the landing which resulted in a disaster (Operation Tiger): ten officers carrying Bigot documents were missing in the Channel after the torpedoing of their ship, but the bodies are later found by the Allies.