destroyer : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: destroyer	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for destroyer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
destroyer n a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship Synonym(s): destroyer, guided missile destroyer a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones" Synonym(s): destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Destroyer \De*stroy"er\, n. = {Torpedo-boat destroyer}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Destroyer \De*stroy"er\, n. [Cf. OF. destruior.] One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Destroyer (Ex. 12:23), the agent employed in the killing of the first-born; the destroying angel or messenger of God. (Comp. 2 Kings 19:35; 2 Sam. 24:15, 16; Ps. 78:49; Acts 12:23.)