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

Derived forms: destroyers

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

Encyclopedia: Destroyer