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destroy
[ dih-stroi ]
verb (used with object)
- to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
Synonyms: devastate, ravage, waste, level, smash
Antonyms: create
- to put an end to; extinguish.
Synonyms: uproot, annihilate, extirpate
Antonyms: create
- to kill; slay.
- to defeat completely.
verb (used without object)
- to engage in destruction.
destroy
/ dɪˈstrɔɪ /
verb
- to ruin; spoil; render useless
- to tear down or demolish; break up; raze
- to put an end to; do away with; extinguish
- to kill or annihilate
- to crush, subdue, or defeat
- intr to be destructive or cause destruction
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Derived Forms
- deˈstroyable, adjective
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Other Words From
- de·stroya·ble adjective
- half-de·stroyed adjective
- prede·stroy verb (used with object)
- self-de·stroyed adjective
- self-de·stroying adjective
- unde·stroyed adjective
- well-de·stroyed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of destroy1
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Example Sentences
But at the heart of this “Truther” conspiracy theory is the idea that “someone” wants to destroy Bill Cosby.
“The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program,” the Times reported.
Would he have been careful enough to destroy the odd pieces of jute you've left so messily about?
Anything less will mean than we are only slightly better as a nation than those who want to destroy us.
Instead we must show that America “is different, stronger, and better than those who would destroy us.”
O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.
The cheerful hours of easy labor vary but do not destroy the pursuit of pleasure and of recreation.
They destroy ants and spiders and other creeping things, so that Alila's mother never kills them nor drives them away.
Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.
Yet the Clarion opposes sweating and tyranny and hypocrisy, and does its best to defeat and to destroy them.
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