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Destroyer   /dɪstrˈɔɪər/   Listen
Destroyer

noun
1.
A small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship.  Synonym: guided missile destroyer.
2.
A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to.  Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster.  "Jealousy was his undoer" , "Uprooters of gravestones"



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... very place where the king died—His bed was on the left of the door-hole of the hut," and so forth, but no certain word as to the exact reason of this sudden and violent death or by whom it was caused. The name of that destroyer of a king ...
— Finished • H. Rider Haggard

... thing that ever was thought! The most irresistible thing, thought, for nothing can stop its progress. The most destructive thing, thought. Thought, the greatest constructor, the greatest destroyer, the product of mind, and producer of powers, the greatest of powers. Thought is controlled by the mind. ...
— Invaders from the Infinite • John Wood Campbell

... victorious truth and adamantine purity of a woman. In Coriolanus, the mother's counsel, acted upon in time, would have saved her son from all evil; his momentary forgetfulness of it is his ruin; her prayer, at last, granted, saves him—not, indeed, from death, but from the curse of living as the destroyer of his country. ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks

... pause to look downward, else he might have seen a still more heart-rending spectacle at the bottom of the tree. He did not stay for this; on the instant he went swoop at the head of the destroyer, with a scream that rang far over the forest, and echoed in a thousand reverberations through the branches of ...
— The Castaways • Captain Mayne Reid

... northern France, and roughly traced the limits of his three bands or formations from France across the southeastern English counties. In his work on "The degradation of mountains effected in our time by heavy rains, rivers, and the sea,"[69] he states that the sea is the most potent destroyer of the land, and that the material thus removed is deposited either on the land or along the shores of the sea. He thought that the levels of the valleys are at present being raised, owing to the deposit of detritus in them. He points out that the deposits laid ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard


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