destroyer

destroyer, contre-torpilleur

Navire militaire rapide qui protège d’autres navires et attaque les navires ou avions ennemis.

En anglais simple : A fast military ship used to protect other ships and attack enemy ships or aircraft.

• The destroyer entered the harbour.
• Two destroyers escorted the larger ship across the ocean.
• Her grandfather served on a destroyer during the war.

Expressions courantes : naval destroyer, a missile destroyer, aboard a destroyer

destructeur

Personne ou chose qui détruit quelque chose ou le fait disparaître.

En anglais simple : A person or thing that ruins something or makes it stop existing.

• Fire is a powerful destroyer.
• He became known as a destroyer of ancient monuments.
• These chemicals are silent destroyers of river life.

Comment l'utiliser : destroyer of something (They saw the war as a destroyer of hope.)

Synonymes : devastator, decimator

Expressions courantes : destroyer of worlds, destroyer of dreams, a ruthless destroyer