Destroyer
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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.)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "destroyer":
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
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