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Noun: destroyer  di'stroyu(r)
  1. A small fast lightly armoured but heavily armed warship
    - guided missile destroyer
     
  2. A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
    "a destroyer of the environment"
    - ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter

Derived forms: destroyers

See also: destroy

Type of: bad person, combat ship, war vessel, warship

Encyclopedia: Destroyer