Word Meanings - WIDOW-MAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.

DESTROYABLE
Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
DESTROY
destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
DESTROYER
One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
SELF-DESTROYER
One who destroys himself; a suicide.
TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
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.
UNDESTROYABLE
Indestructible.
COMMERCE DESTROYER
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.