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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Ruinate :: Ruinate (v. t.) To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin.
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering..
Victor :: Victor (n.) A destroyer.
Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train..
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) To destroy; to kill.
Eradicate :: Eradicate (v. t.) To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors..
Dock :: Dock (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail..
Smite :: Smite (v. t.) To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation..
Invalidate :: Invalidate (v. t.) To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument..
Time :: Time (n.) The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times..
Demoralize :: Demoralize (v. t.) To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency..
Deperdit :: Deperdit (n.) That which is lost or destroyed.
Palmerworm :: Palmerworm (n.) In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers..
Extirpate :: Extirpate (v. t.) To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy..
Exterminate :: Exterminate (v. t.) To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice..
Iconoclast :: Iconoclast (n.) One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.
Antibromic :: Antibromic (n.) An agent that destroys offensive smells; a deodorizer.
Assart :: Assart (n.) The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest..
Destruction :: Destruction (n.) The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.
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