Synonyms for destroyer
dɪˈstrɔɪ ərde·stroy·er

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1. destroyer, guided missile destroyernoun

   a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship

   Synonyms:
   guided missile destroyer, waster, ruiner, uprooter, undoer

2. destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooternoun

   a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

   "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones"

   Synonyms:
   guided missile destroyer, wastrel, unfastener, untier, undoer, opener, uprooter, ruiner, waster

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1. destroyernoun

   Synonyms:
   iconoclast, annihilator, vandal, hun, destructionist, apollyon

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1. List of paraphrases for "destroyer":

   destroyers, devastating, destructive, destroyed

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1. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov:

   Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

2. Mother Teresa:

   The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me There is nothing between.

3. Eric Wertheim:

   The smallest ship in the U.S. Navy to carry a Tomahawk missile would be destroyer size – that’s about 10 times the size [of the Russian ships].

4. Starhawk:

   ...desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through.

5. Plutarch:

   The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.