Destroyer - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|dɪˈstrɔɪər|
Brit.
|dɪˈstrɔɪə|
noun
- a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
- a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to (syn: ruiner, waster)
- a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to (syn: ruiner, waster)
a destroyer of the environment
Extra examples
The pamphlet describes alcohol as a destroyer of families.
...the use of illegal narcotics is not only a destroyer of personal health but also an iniquity that undermines our society...
...in his harangue on the perils of drink, the prohibitionist claimed that intemperance has always been the number one destroyer of marriages...
Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands
Word forms
noun
singular: destroyer
plural: destroyers
singular: destroyer
plural: destroyers
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