English > destruct: 2 senses > verb 2, 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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| Synonym | destroy |
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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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