Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that destroys.
- noun A small, fast, highly maneuverable warship armed with guns, torpedoes, depth charges, and guided missiles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which destroys; one who or that which kills, ruins, or makes desolate.
- noun Specifically, a torpedo-boat destroyer. See
torpedo-boat .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
- noun (Nav.) a small fast warship used primarily as an escort to larger vessels and typically armed with a combination of 5-inch guns, torpedos, depth charges, and missiles; formerly identical to the
Torpedo-boat destroyer .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which
destroys something. - noun military A small, fast
warship with lightarmament , smaller than acruiser , but bigger than afrigate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
- noun a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
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Examples
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As you can see the destroyer is the workhorse of this fleet.
Action '73Canadian Maritime ForcesAircraft, Ships, and Submarines 1973
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The saga of the type 45 destroyer is a case in point, 12 ordered, reduced to 8, now 6.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war? 2010
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The survivors soon learn that the destroyer is not as deserted as it first appeared and that the victims of the deadly plague on their own ship start coming back to life and craving flesh.
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One of the big selling points of the Navy's new destroyer is that it can rain a whole lot of hell -- 20 rocket-propelled artillery shells, in less than a minute -- on targets up to 63 nautical miles away ...
Boing Boing 2006
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A destroyer is a civilization unto itself in the midst of the ocean.
Managing China 2005
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A destroyer is a civilization unto itself in the midst of the ocean.
Managing China 2005
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The Kearny, a U.S. destroyer, is torpedoed off the coast of
What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?: Timeline ITY Brown University 1997
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Christ the prince of this world, the great destroyer, is cast out, is dispossessed, has his power broken and his attempts quite baffled.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Another American squatter was always sending over to borrow a small-tooth comb, which she called a vermin destroyer; and once the same person asked the loan of a towel, as a friend had come from the States to visit her, and the only one she had, had been made into a best "pinny" for the child; she likewise begged a sight in the looking-glass, as she wanted to try on a new cap, to see if it were fixed to her mind.
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Phillies 4 Cards 3Paddy O Doors tweets: @lengeldavid the term mets destroyer has a pretty wide membershipPaddy-I'm pretty sure you can get in on it.
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