English noun: destroyer | |||
| 1. | destroyer (artifact) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | ||
| Synonyms | guided missile destroyer | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | combat ship, war vessel, warship | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | tin can, torpedo-boat destroyer | ||
| Instance hyponym | USS Cole | ||
| 2. | destroyer (person) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | ||
| Samples | A destroyer of the environment. Jealousy was his undoer. Uprooters of gravestones. | ||
| Synonyms | ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bad person | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | annihilator, diversionist, iconoclast, image breaker, saboteur, vandal, wrecker | ||