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One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.

A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.

One who destroys himself; a suicide.

A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.

The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.

The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

doo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.

A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. [Obs.]

Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. Death! great proprietor of all. Young. And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that at on him was Death. Rev. vi. 8.

A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer. The destruction that wasteth at noonday. Ps. xci. 6.

A destroyer. [R.] Fire, the destructive and the artificial death of things. Boyle.

One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.

A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.

A destroyer of civil liberty. B. F. Wade.

One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.

, of Hindoo gods, consisting of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer. [Spelled also Trimurtti.]

A destroyer. [R. & Poetic] There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. Pope.

i, or trinity. He is regarded as the preserver, while Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer of the creation.