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. Thomas More:

   When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.

2. Tereza Cristina:

   We cannot say that, because we have a fire in the Amazon rainforest, Brazilian agribusiness is the great destroyer and should therefore face trade barriers.

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. J. Robert Oppenheimer:

   I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B.

5. Jens Stoltenberg:

   We are ready to help, but they have to request it – so we will not send in troops and we will not do any activities in Libya at all without a request from the Libyan government. Britain has provisionally offered to contribute 1,000 troops to an Italian-led training mission. Stoltenberg also condemned flyby of Russian warplanes in the Baltic Sea over a US Navy destroyer that took place Monday. He called Russia’s behavior.