destroyer

destroyer
n
1. demolisher, desolator, despoiler; wrecker, mutilator; robber, plunderer, ransacker, vandal; effacer, eliminator, eradicator, expunger.
2. annihilator, exterminator, killer, slayer, man-slayer, slaughterer, dealer of destruction; murderer, Cain, assassinator, assassin, cutthroat, strangler, butcher, poisoner; executioner, gunman, hangman, decapitator, guillotiner, lyncher, Inf. hatchet man, Sl. hit man; incendiary, arsonist.
3. savage, cannibal, barbarian, Goth, Hun.
4. iconoclast, nihilist, anarchist.
5. plague, pestilence, epidemic, pandemic, scourge; explosive, submarine, warship, torpedo, bomb.

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