English > destroy: 4 senses > verb 1, creationMeaning | Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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Example | "The fire destroyed the house" |
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Synonym | destruct |
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Narrower | demolish, pulverize, pulverise | Destroy completely |
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demolish | Ruin or destroy |
demyelinate | Destroy the myelin sheath of |
destruct | Destroy (one's own missile or rocket) |
dilapidate | Bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse |
disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart | take apart into its constituent pieces |
end | put an end to |
extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with | Terminate, end, or take out |
fracture | interrupt, break / break, or destroy |
interdict | Destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication |
kill | Destroy a vitally essential quality of or in |
level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down | tear down so as to make flat with the ground |
self-destruct, self-destroy | Do away with oneself or itself |
uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate | Destroy completely, as if down to the roots |
wipe out, sweep away | Eliminate completely and without a trace |
Broader | unmake, undo | deprive of certain characteristics / characteristics |
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Spanish | arrasar, arruinar, destrozar, destruir |
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Catalan | arrasar, destrossar, destruir, trencar |
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Adjectives | destructible | easily destroyed |
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destructive | causing destruction or much damage / damage |
Nouns | destroyer | a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship |
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destroyer | a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to |
destruction | the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists |
English > destroy: 4 senses > verb 2, contactMeaning | Destroy completely; damage irreparably. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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Synonym | ruin |
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Entailed by | sack, plunder | plunder (a town) after capture |
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Narrower | break | Find a flaw in |
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break, bust | ruin completely |
burn, fire, burn down | Destroy by fire |
bust up, wreck, wrack | smash / smash / smash / smash or break / break forcefully |
consume | Destroy completely |
devour | Destroy completely |
do a job on | Destroy completely or make ugly or useless |
explode | Destroy by exploding |
get | Overcome or destroy |
harry, ravage | make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place) , as in wartimes |
kick in, kick down | open violently |
lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge | Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly |
rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder | Destroy and strip of its possession |
shipwreck | Destroy a ship |
subvert | Destroy completely |
vandalize, vandalise | Destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism |
wash out | Wear or destroy by the force of water |
Spanish | arrasar, arruinar, deshacer, destrozar, destruir, romper |
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Catalan | arrasar, arruïnar, destrossar, destruir |
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Adjectives | destructible | easily destroyed |
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Nouns | destroyer | a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship |
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destroyer | a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to |
destruction | the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists |
destruction | an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something |