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.