Noun: destroyer di'stroy-u(r)
- A small fast lightly armoured but heavily armed warship
"The guided missile destroyer patrolled the coastline";
- guided missile destroyer, tin can [informal]
- A person who destroys, ruins or lays waste to
"a destroyer of the environment";
- ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter
Derived forms: destroyers
Type of: bad person, combat ship, war vessel, warship
Encyclopedia: Destroyer