Definition of destroy

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Destroy (v. t.) 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.

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Rogue :: Rogue (v. t.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).
By :: By (pref.) With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force..
Discompose :: Discompose (v. t.) To throw into disorder; to ruffle; to destroy the composure or equanimity; to agitate.
Flat :: Flat (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed..
Bane :: Bane (n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality..
Apollyon :: Apollyon (n.) The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon..
Deplete :: Deplete (a.) To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc..
Deperdit :: Deperdit (n.) That which is lost or destroyed.
Overturn :: Overturn (v. t.) To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.
Subdue :: Subdue (v. t.) To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds..
Assart :: Assart (n.) The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest..
Self-destroyer :: Self-destroyer (n.) One who destroys himself; a suicide.
Deprive :: Deprive (v. t.) To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
Consume :: Consume (v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour..
Antiseptic :: Antiseptic (n.) A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona..
Deadly :: Deadly (a.) Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies..
Liberticide :: Liberticide (n.) A destroyer of civil liberty.
Break :: Break (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey..
Victim :: Victim (n.) A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition..
Interrupted :: Interrupted (a.) Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf..
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