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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a destructive agent |
| Synonyms: | annihilator, assassin, bomber, cancer, chemotherapy, demolisher, despoiler, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, firebrand, iconoclast, pillager, poison, radiation, ransacker, savage, slaughterer, vandal, wrecker |
| Antonyms: | author, creator, restorer |
| Concept: | Destroyer. |
| Category: | 3. POWER IN OPERATION |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
destroyer (destroy [more]); cankerworm (bane); assassin (killer); executioner (punish); biblioclast, eidoloclast, iconoclast, idoloclast; nihilist.
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| Antonyms: | producer |
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| Main Entry: | undoing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destruction, misfortune |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad omen, bane, blight, blow, blunder, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, collapse, curse, defeat, destroyer, difficulty, disgrace, doom, downfall, error, failure, fault, faux pas, flaw, fumble, grief, humiliation, last straw, misadventure, miscalculation, mischance, mishap, misstep, omission, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, ruin, ruination, shame, slip, smash, stumble, subversion, trial, trip, trouble, visitation, weakness, wreck |
| Antonyms: | building, creation, doing, good fortune |
| Main Entry: | vandal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who defiles property |
| Synonyms: | defacer, despoiler, destroyer, hoodlum, looter, mischief-maker, pillager, pirate, plunderer, ravager, thief |
| Main Entry: | breaker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large wave |
| Synonyms: | billow, destroyer, roller, surf, wave |
| Notes: | a long curving wave is a comber, a wave that curls over and dissolves into foam is a breaker, and a long wave moving steadily shorewards is a roller |
| Main Entry: | warship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large boat |
| Synonyms: | battleship, corvette, cruiser, cutter, destroyer, dreadnaught, dreadnought, frigate, gunboat, submarine |
| Main Entry: | ruination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ruin |
| Synonyms: | bane, bankrupt, beggar, botch, break*, bring down, bring to ruin, bust, clean out, crush, decimate, deface, defeat, defile, demolish, deplete, deplore, depredate, desecrate, despoil, destroyer, destruction, devour, dilapidate, disfigure, do in, downfall, drain, exhaust, fleece, impoverish, injure, lay waste, maim, make a mess of, mangle, mar, mutilate, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, pauperize, pillage, rape, ravish, raze, reduce, sack, shatter, smash, spoil, spoilate, total*, undoing, use up, wipe out, wrack, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrecker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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