'Destroyer' definitions:
Definition of 'destroyer'
From: WordNet
noun
A small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship [syn: destroyer, guided missile destroyer]
noun
Definition of 'Destroyer'
From: 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.]
Definition of 'Destroyer'
From: 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.)
Synonyms of 'destroyer'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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