eversor alicujus rei (overthrower; e.g., urbis, imperii): exstinctor alicujus rei (e.g., conjurationis): perditor (one who ruins anything; e.g., reipublicae): corruptor: corruptela (in a moral sense): pestis, pernicies (the bane of anything; its ruin): confector: consumtor (consumtor rare; Cic.; e.g., ignis omnium confector et consumtor, also confectorferarum, Suet.): subversor (e.g., legum; opposed to auctor, Tac.): vastator: populator (who lays a country waste). (The words are found in this connection and order.) populator eversorque: interfector, and (only once; Plaut.) occisor alicujus, percussor calicujus (the person who slays another; ☞ peremtor, interemtor, late): cf., destructor very late. To be the destroyer of anybody, exitio esse alicui (his ruin).