What is the meaning of destroyer?

noun

  • A small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship.
  • A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to.
    • usage: "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones"
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