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• n  a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship
• n  a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
  a destroyer of the environment

• Tank-destroyer men say that fighting tanks with tanks is like pitting bombers against each other.
• The destroyer did not try to outrace her pursuers; with a top speed of 33 knots, she could not have done so anyway.
• From the bridge of the racing, rolling destroyer-minesweeper Hobson, the air craft carrier Wasp was simply a dark bulk 3,000 yards off to the left, against the mid-Atlantic night.

• guided missile destroyer
• ruiner
• undoer
• waster
• uprooter

News & Articles

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• Yasiel Puig’s latest accomplishment? He’s the inspiration for a new band — Puig Destroyer
  After 10 MLB games, Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig has inspired a brawl, many nicknames and T-shirts, crazy merch sales, a fresh round of "small sample size" rants and now this — a new rock band called Puig Destroyer. … Continue reading ?
  June 14, 2013 - Big League Stew via Yahoo! Sports
• Destroyer Bainbridge to deploy Friday from Norfolk
  NORFOLK The guided-missile destroyer Bainbridge will deploy Friday from Norfolk. The ship will head to Europe and Africa as part of the service’s anti-piracy mission, a Navy news release says.
  June 13, 2013 - The Virginian-Pilot
• Iran Launches Rearmed Destroyer on Persian Gulf
  Iran says it rearms destroyer with modern missiles, launches it on the Persian Gulf        
  June 11, 2013 - ABC News

Quotes

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• Mother Teresa in MSU State News
  And while some may think there are issues with higher precedence this election, I would like to remind them what Mother Teresa said: "The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the...
• Barack Obama in AFP
  This is a smart thing to do. We have to get beyond this point -- where we think that somehow being smart on energy is a job destroyer -- in fact it is a job creator,Obama said, after a roundtable with local business people.
• Mike Rann in Sydney Morning Herald
  They announced plans to dredge their port back in early 2002, but they haven't got cracking with it,Mr Rann said. "We've actually finished ours - we started dredging Port Adelaide in 2005, just after we won the Air Warfare Destroyer...