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[ dih-stroi-er ] / dɪˈstrɔɪ ər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR destroyer ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person or thing that destroys. a fast, relatively small, warship armed mainly with 5-inch (13-centimeter) guns. Origin of destroyerFirst recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English destroiere (compare Old French destruiere ); see destroy, -er1 OTHER WORDS FROM destroyerself-de·stroy·er, nounWords nearby destroyerdestock, destool, de-stress, destrier, destroy, destroyer, destroyer escort, destroying angel, destruct, destructible, destruction Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for destroyerThe oil palm is a Shiva of the modern consumer economy, a great creator and a great destroyer. The Environmental Headache in Your Shampoo - Issue 90: Something Green|Anastasia Bendebury & Michael Shilo DeLay|September 16, 2020|Nautilus It may well be that the Deccan Traps played the role of “a creator rather than a destroyer,” Lyson says. An asteroid impact, not volcanism, may have made Earth unlivable for dinosaurs|Megan Sever|July 17, 2020|Science News The USS Arleigh Burke, a destroyer, and USS Philippine Sea, a cruiser, launched a total of 47 Tomahawk missiles. $70 Billion Stealth Jet Finally Flies in Its First War|Dave Majumdar|September 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST He was in the forward gun turret where the destroyer hit us. JFK Letter: ‘War Is a Dirty Business’|John F. Kennedy|November 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
During a night operation in the Solomon Islands in 1943, the patrol torpedo boat he commanded was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Three Great Men Died That Day: JFK, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley|John Garth|November 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST He was not a destroyer seeking to become exceptional by killing. Kofi Awoonor, the Ghanaian Poet Killed in Westgate Mall Attack|Michael Daly|September 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST Some see all significance in the grim front of the destroyer, and some in the bitter sufferers of the Lost Cause. David's Bookclub: Battle Cry of Freedom|David Frum|May 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST Rick and Scotty watched Jimmy Kelly check the diving equipment of the frogman teams lined up on the destroyer escort's deck. The Wailing Octopus|Harold Leland Goodwin Alice then spoke of mercy and peace to all men, and conjured me for my own sake to spare her destroyer. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851|Various And he who hath to be a creator in good and evil—verily, he hath first to be a destroyer, and break values in pieces. Thus Spake Zarathustra|Friedrich Nietzsche The German admiral and his officers returned to the destroyer, and the march of the fleets continued. The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets|Robert L. Drake And so it comes down to the tenement, the destroyer of individuality and character everywhere. How the Other Half Lives|Jacob A. Riis
British Dictionary definitions for destroyer
nouna small fast lightly armoured but heavily armed warship a person or thing that destroys Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to destroyerbomber, ship, warship, battleship, executioner, savage, cancer, radiation, vandal, firebrand, poison, iconoclast, slaughterer, assassin, despoiler, pillager, annihilator, chemotherapy, eradicator, wrecker |