Definitions
a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English destroyour, destroyere; By surface analysis, destroy + -er. Designating a warship, it is ellipsis of torpedo-boat destroyer, the longer term appearing at the end of the 19th century and the shorter form early in the 20th.
Used in a sentence
“But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.”
“These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.”
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01“Naval warship”9 letters
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