harpoon
noun
a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
harpooned
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past participleof harpoon.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof harpoon.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
harpoonnouna barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
Example Sentences
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McLaren did their first runs on medium tyres in the first session to try to save softs for later but it seems to have harpooned Piastri.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024
Reykjavík suspended commercial whaling in June after a government-commissioned report said that it took too long for whales to die after they were harpooned, sometimes hours, in breach of its law on animal welfare.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2023
A write-up in the Evening Capital from August 1895 tells how he harpooned a 9½-foot beast that towed him all the way to Greenbury Point two miles away.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2022
But probably the biggest white whale I harpooned this year was my fellow New Yorker and the bard of outerborough pride, Mr. William Martin Joel.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2020
One summer my dad harpooned eighteen tuna, twice as many as the next best man in Spinney Cove.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
