(Ex. 12:23), the agent employed in the killing of the first-born; the destroying angel or messenger of God. (Comp. 2 Kings 19:35; 2 Sam. 24:15, 16; Ps. 78:49; Acts 12:23.)
·add. ·noun = Torpedo-boat destroyer. II. Destroyer ·noun One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desola...
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·add. ·- A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessel...
·noun One who destroys himself; a suicide. ...
·add. ·- A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended princi...