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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
destroyer \destroy"er\, n. cf. of. destruior.
1. one who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
1913 webster
2. nav. a small fast warship used primarily as an escort to
larger vessels and typically armed with a combination of
5-inch guns, torpedos, depth charges, and missiles;
formerly identical to the torpedo-boat destroyer.
webster 1913 suppl.
see also:
torpedo-boat destroyer
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
destroyer
n 1: a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship syn:
guided missile destroyer
2: a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a
destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer";
"uprooters of gravestones" syn: ruiner, undoer, waster,
uprooter
see also:
guided missile destroyer ruiner undoer waster uprooter
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
41 moby thesaurus words for "destroyer":
animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, bane, barbarian,
battleship, battlewagon, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner,
can, cannibal, capital ship, demolisher, despoiler, destruction,
dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, hun, hyena, iconoclast,
idol breaker, idoloclast, man-eater, nihilist, ruin, ruination,
ruiner, savage, shark, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, undoing,
vandal, wild man, wrecker
- [4] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
destroyer
ex. 12:23, the agent employed in the killing of the
first-born; the destroying angel or messenger of god. comp. 2
kings 19:35; 2 sam. 24:15, 16; ps. 78:49; acts 12:23.
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