Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun destroyer

2 senses of destroyer

Sense 1
destroyer, guided missile destroyer -- (a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship)
       => warship, war vessel, combat ship -- (a government ship that is available for waging war)

Sense 2
destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter -- (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones")
       => bad person -- (a person who does harm to others)