anti-ship

adjective

an·​ti-ship ˌan-tē-ˈship How to pronounce anti-ship (audio) ˌan-tī- How to pronounce anti-ship (audio)
variants or antiship
: designed to destroy ships
anti-ship missiles

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The attack came a day after Ukrainian anti-ship missiles and drones blitzed a major Russian naval base on the Black Sea coast. — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026 Video supplied by East2West showed Russian forces firing anti-ship missiles during the drills. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Earlier this week, at least 17 people were killed in Kyiv and surrounding areas as Russia fired more than two dozen ballistic missiles and anti-ship missiles – none of which were shot down. — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026 Liselotte Odgaard, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, said deploying anti-ship missiles on both surface vessels and submarines gives China multiple attack vectors and makes its maritime strike capabilities more resilient. — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for anti-ship

Word History

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of anti-ship was in 1906

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“Anti-ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-ship. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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