destroyer

From 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.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dəˈstɹɔɪ.ɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ)

destroyer (plural destroyers)

1. That which destroys something.
   • 1901, Sylvester D. Judd, The Relation of Sparrows to Agriculture, page 91:

     But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.

   • 1908 January, John Muir, “Hetch Hetchy Valley”, in Sierra Club Bulletin‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (military, nautical, historical) A small, fast warship with light gun armament, smaller than a cruiser, but bigger than a frigate.
3. (military, nautical) A larger warship with guided missile armament, usually intended for air defence or anti-ship roles. Often, but not always, larger than a frigate and smaller than a cruiser.
   1. (science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role.

• (one who destroys): devastator, decimator

• redestroy, roystered

English destroyer.

• IPA^(key): /dɛs.tʁɔ.jœʁ/, /dɛs.tʁɔ.je/, /dɛs.tʁwa.je/

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destroyer m (plural destroyers)

1. (France, military) destroyer (warship)

   Synonym: contre-torpilleur

destroyer

1. (North America) to destroy

• “destroyer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English destroyer.

• Hyphenation: des‧tro‧yer

destroyer (definite accusative destroyeri, plural destroyerler)

1. destroyer

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