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/dɪstrˈɔɪər/ Listen

noun

Destroyer n.

One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Destroyer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Destroyer" Quotes from Famous Books

... it was nothing more than the real insatiate aspiration of Alexander, who looked upon every new acquisition mainly as a capital for acquiring more. "You are a man like all of us, Alexander" (said the naked Indian to him), "except that you abandon your home like a meddlesome destroyer, to invade the most distant regions; enduring hardship yourself, and inflicting hardship upon others." Now, how an empire thus boundless and heterogeneous, such as no prince has ever yet realized, could have been administered with ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III • Various

... On the swift Destroyer Cassin he was merely gunner's mate, But up there to-day, I fancy, he is standing with the great. On that grim day last October his position on the craft Was that portion of the vessel which the sailors christen aft; There were deep sea bombs beside him to be dropped upon ...

— Over Here • Edgar A. Guest

... Louvain and Rheims? Has not war, the rude and ruthless destroyer, trodden down glorious cities and priceless buildings that might claim to rank among the greatest Kultur-treasures of humanity? Exactly the opposite may be said: war has in these cases led the way to a really clear recognition of the value to humanity of these ...

— Gems (?) of German Thought • Various

... to be the leader of a fresh battalion of the destroyer. A succession of ice-floes ran against the house and trees to which it was fastened. An additional rush of water came down at the same time like a wave of the sea. Every one saw that the approaching ...

— The Red Man's Revenge - A Tale of The Red River Flood • R.M. Ballantyne

... flickered in the old-fashioned polished iron grate; outside the window twilight and the fog were mingling. The room had some unfamiliar quality of ordered emptiness already, as if life's highway must be cleared for the coming of the great Destroyer. ...

— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

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