Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: destroyer
IPA transcription: [dɪstɹ'ɔɪɚ]
Pronunciations of destroyer
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: destroyer, guided_missile_destroyer
    Meaning: a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
Usage examples
  • It may kill in self-defense, but it is essentially not a killer or destroyer.
  • Could I feel an affection the most paternal for this poor sufferer, and not abominate her destroyer?
  • The only flower known to have wings is the butterfly; all others stand helpless before the destroyer.
  • The hymn referred to lauds Garuda as "the bird of life, the presiding spirit of the animate and inanimate universe ... destroyer of all, creator of all".
  • And they abode in all comfort and solace and joyance of life, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and Severer of societies; the Depopulator of palaces and the Garnerer of graveyards.
  • Sometimes I thought that the fiend followed me and might expedite my remissness by murdering my companion. When these thoughts possessed me, I would not quit Henry for a moment, but followed him as his shadow, to protect him from the fancied rage of his destroyer.
  • Well, undermine in them the miserable prejudice of respect and fear of kings; teach your flocks that the queen is a tyrant; and repeat often and loudly, so that all may know it, that the misfortunes of France are caused by Mazarin, her lover and her destroyer; begin this work to-day, this instant even, and in three days I shall expect the result.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Battle of Wake Island, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording USS Missouri (BB-63), License CC BY-SA 4.0