- destroyer, guided missile destroyer - a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
--1 is a kind of warship, war vessel, combat ship
--1 has particulars: tin can; torpedo-boat destroyer; USS ColeDerived forms: verb destroy1, verb destroy2 - 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"
--2 is a kind of bad person
--2 has particulars:annihilator; iconoclast, image breaker; saboteur, wrecker, diversionist; vandal Derived forms: verb destroy1, verb destroy2