destroyer Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
    guided missile destroyer.
  2. noun a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
    ruiner; uprooter; waster; undoer.
    • a destroyer of the environment
    • jealousy was his undoer
    • uprooters of gravestones

WordNet

De*stroy"er noun
Etymology
Cf. OF. destruior.
Definitions
  1. One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.

Webster 1913