Destroyer

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Destroyer \De*stroy"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.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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.)