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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Destroyer \De*stroy"er\, noun [Cf. OF. destruior.]
1. One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
2. (Nav.) a small fast warship used primarily as an escort to larger vessels and typically armed with a combination of 5-inch guns, torpedos, depth charges, and missiles; formerly identical to the {Torpedo-boat destroyer}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
destroyer
noun
1: a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship [syn: {guided missile destroyer}]
2: a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones" [syn: {ruiner}, {undoer}, {waster}, {uprooter}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "destroyer": animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, bane, barbarian, battleship, battlewagon, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, can, cannibal, capital ship, demolisher, despoiler, destruction, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, hun, hyena, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, man-eater, nihilist, ruin, ruination, ruiner, savage, shark, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, undoing, vandal, wild man, wrecker
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.)
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