Definition of destroy

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Destroy (v. t.) To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill..

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Abolish :: Abolish (v. t.) To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out..
Pygmy :: Pygmy (n.) One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed..
Deface :: Deface (v. t.) To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck..
Deletive :: Deletive (a.) Adapted to destroy or obliterate.
Break :: Break (v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set..
Havoc :: Havoc (v. t.) To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.
Torpedo :: Torpedo (v. t.) to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo..
Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted..
Perish :: Perish (v. i.) To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away..
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..
Undestroyable :: Undestroyable (a.) Indestructible.
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.
Ruin :: Ruin (n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like..
Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.
Destructiveness :: Destructiveness (n.) The quality of destroying or ruining.
Annihilation :: Annihilation (n.) The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation..
Snag :: Snag (v. t.) To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree..
Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
Corrode :: Corrode (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali..
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