Destroyer
[dɪ'strɒɪə] or [dɪ'strɔɪɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship.
(noun.) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; 'a destroyer of the environment'; 'jealousy was his undoer'; 'uprooters of gravestones'.
Checker: Thomas--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
Typed by Irwin
Examples
- Tears rushed into my eyes; surely this was a wanton display of the power of the destroyer. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I shut my eyes involuntarily, and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- This is of prime importance, as permitting quick submergence or emergence, either to escape from a high-speed destroyer or to capture a merchantman. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The torpedo boat destroyer is a larger and swifter boat, whose special duty it is to overtake and destroy this dangerous little fighter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The great mission of the submarine during the European war was as a commerce destroyer. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Behold the destroyer! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We were impressed by the sentiment, that our race was run, but that plague would not be our destroyer. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The destroyer of forests shall shake his red crest against them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Only, in his vague way, the dread was his wife, the destroyer, and it was the pain, the destruction, a darkness which was one and both. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Instead of being a destroyer of merchandise, this new craft was an unarmed carrier of merchandise. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Light cruisers are vessels of from 1,500 to 7,500 tons, used in scouting, as commerce destroyers, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the still uncultivated wilds of America, what wonder that among its other giant destroyers, Plague should be numbered! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The latter are now considered as the most formidable and efficient class of destroyers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Edited by ELLA