Synonyms for destroyer
dɪˈstrɔɪ ərde·stroy·er

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1. destroyer, guided missile destroyernoun

   a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship

   Synonyms:
   guided missile destroyer, waster, ruiner, uprooter, undoer

2. destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooternoun

   a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

   "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones"

   Synonyms:
   guided missile destroyer, wastrel, unfastener, untier, undoer, opener, uprooter, ruiner, waster

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1. destroyernoun

   Synonyms:
   iconoclast, annihilator, vandal, hun, destructionist, apollyon

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1. List of paraphrases for "destroyer":

   destroyers, devastating, destructive, destroyed

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1. Jens Stoltenberg:

   We are ready to help, but they have to request it – so we will not send in troops and we will not do any activities in Libya at all without a request from the Libyan government. Britain has provisionally offered to contribute 1,000 troops to an Italian-led training mission. Stoltenberg also condemned flyby of Russian warplanes in the Baltic Sea over a US Navy destroyer that took place Monday. He called Russia’s behavior.

2. Robert G. Ingersoll:

   The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

3. J. Robert Oppenheimer:

   I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B.

4. Starhawk:

   ...desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through.

5. Thomas More:

   When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.