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English noun: destroyer

1. destroyer (artifact) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship


Synonymsguided missile destroyer


Broader (hypernym)combat ship, war vessel, warship


Narrower (hyponym)tin can, torpedo-boat destroyer


Instance hyponymUSS Cole

2. destroyer (person) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to


SamplesA destroyer of the environment.
Jealousy was his undoer.
Uprooters of gravestones.


Synonymsruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster


Broader (hypernym)bad person


Narrower (hyponym)annihilator, diversionist, iconoclast, image breaker, saboteur, vandal, wrecker









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