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destroyer

noun

1 destroyer

A small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship.

synonym: guided missile destroyer.

Roget 165: destroyer etc. (destroy) etc. 162; cankerworm etc. (bane) 663; assassin etc. (killer) 361; ... show more

Roget 273: ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom.    navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping.    man of war etc. (combatant) 726; ... show more

Roget 726: combatant; disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent; competitor, rival, corrival; fighter, assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper, ... show more

Roget 913: evil doer, evil worker; wrongdoer etc. 949; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant; destroyer, Vandal; iconoclast.    firebrand, incendiary, ... show more

Dutch: torpedobootjager
Polish: niszczyciel, kontrtorpedowiec

2 destroyer

A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to:
— A destroyer of the environment.

synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster.

Dutch: verbrasser, verkwister, verspiller
Polish: destruktor, niszczyciel


Moby thesaurus: animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, bane, barbarian, battleship, battlewagon, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, can, cannibal, capital ship, demolisher, despoiler, destruction, dynamitard ... show more.

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