UPROOTER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

Example:

uprooters of gravestones

Synonyms:

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("uprooter" is a kind of...):

bad person (a person who does harm to others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uprooter"):

annihilator (a total destroyer)

iconoclast; image breaker (a destroyer of images used in religious worship)

diversionist; saboteur; wrecker (someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks)

vandal (someone who willfully destroys or defaces property)

Derivation:

uproot (destroy completely, as if down to the roots)