Destroy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To ruin completely; spoil: The ancient manuscripts were destroyed by fire.
  • v. To tear down or break up; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin.
  • v. To do away with; put an end to: "In crowded populations, poverty destroys the possibility of cleanliness” ( George Bernard Shaw).
  • v. To kill: destroy a rabid dog.
  • v. To subdue or defeat completely; crush: The rebel forces were destroyed in battle.
  • v. To render useless or ineffective: destroyed the testimony of the prosecution's chief witness.
  • verb-intransitive. To be destructive; cause destruction: "Too much money destroys as surely as too little” ( John Simon).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To damage beyond use or repair.
  • v. To cause destruction.
  • v. To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
  • v. To put down or euthanize.
  • v. To defeat soundly.
  • v. To remove data.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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.
  • v. To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume.
  • v. To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pull down; unbuild (that which has been built or constructed); demolish: as, to destroy a building or a fortification; to destroy a city.
  • To overthrow; lay waste; ruin; make desolate.
  • To kill; slay; extirpate: applied to men or animals.
  • To bring to naught; put an end to; annihilate; obliterate entirely; cause to cease, or to cease to be: as, to destroy one's happiness or peace of mind by worry.
  • To counteract or render of no avail; take away, detract from, or vitiate the power, force, value, use, or beauty of; ruin; spoil: as, to destroy a person's influence.
  • To refute; disprove.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. destroy completely; damage irreparably
  • v. put (an animal) to death
  • v. do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
  • v. defeat soundly
    • Antonym
    restore    repair    make   
    Verb Form
    destroyed    destroying    destroys   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    kill   
    Cross Reference
    demolish    kill    annihilate    extinguish    abolish    counteract    devastate    destroying angels   
    Hyponym
    waste    harry    bust    bust-up    burn down    wrack    consume    explode    break    washout   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ruin    desolate    kill    slay    dismantle    demolish    consume    extinguish    lay waste    throw down   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Elroy    Floy    Goy    Illinois    Joy    Oi    Roy    Savoy    Troy    ahoy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    monarchial    sea-borne    waterway    epigrammatical    countervailing    non-contraband    Lyndon    dead weight    coastwise    squander   
     
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