English > destroy: 4 senses > verb 1, creation| Meaning | 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, contact| Meaning | 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 |
