Word Finder - destroy

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To damage beyond use or repair.

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Hooligans destroy unprovoked.

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To neutralize, undo a property or condition.

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Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate.

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To put down or euthanize.

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Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.

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To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.

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Her divorce destroyed her; she had a nervous breakdown and was severely depressed for more than a year.

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To defeat soundly.

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To remove data.

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The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.

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To sing a song poorly.

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(antiphrasis) To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up.

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This exercise is going to destroy all parts of your shoulders.

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To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.

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She got destroyed by her lover on the carpet.

Rhyn wanted to destroy the letter.

We know it is easier to destroy than to create.

A long time ago, there was a battle so horrible it threatened to destroy the whole universe.

Whatever you don't destroy, we will.

If it should continue so long as to cause the seeds to rot in the ground and destroy the potatoes in the low lands, it would still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, it would be good for me.

You won't destroy the people?

You win your battles or they destroy you!

She said we have to destroy it, too.

We don't know who can, but we know who can destroy our efforts.

My neighbors will be fortunate if I don't destroy them next.

We have no reason to believe they will destroy you.

Her untaught, unsatisfied hands destroy whatever they touch because they do not know what else to do with things.

Do this, or I will burn Rome and destroy all its people.

I was getting ready to destroy the world.

Couldn't destroy this awful place.

Something must've happened to destroy whatever kept them locked.

That assumption would destroy the possibility of the existence of laws, that is, of any science whatever.

The funny thing is, the Watcher told me that any Original Being that was set free would destroy the world.

She must destroy the demon.

Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

I'll destroy it if you try to take it.

Sasha and the Dark One will destroy everything they can.

Lilith was trying to destroy the Council.

Because it is cheaper to destroy than create, advances in technology increase our ability to destroy.

You came to me to destroy those who have wronged you.

Too afraid to challenge him, she watched him destroy everything.

They wouldn't destroy their world any more than you would.

It was ready to march upon the city and destroy it.

Kris remained where he was, aware they'd destroy each other if allowed.

The Horsemen controlled and activated space weapons with the capability to destroy a country.

So did de Tocqueville, touring nineteenth-century America, when he wrote that "All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it."

If in a thousand years even one man in a million could act freely, that is, as he chose, it is evident that one single free act of that man's in violation of the laws governing human action would destroy the possibility of the existence of any laws for the whole of humanity.

More even than this, in your wickedness you destroy the peaceful homes of your clients!

To the men who fought against the rising truths of physical philosophy, it seemed that if they admitted that truth it would destroy faith in God, in the creation of the firmament, and in the miracle of Joshua the son of Nun.

The mines were rigged, and he'd never wanted to think he'd need to destroy his home in order to rid it of the blight affecting it.

The only way was to destroy herself.

She looked too sweet to be someone about to destroy the fabric between the immortal and mortal worlds, even if he did sense some sort of dark secret in her gaze.

I don't vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!

Then came an order to retreat to Sventsyani and destroy any provisions they could not carry away with them.

The French have destroyed my home and are on their way to destroy Moscow, they have outraged and are outraging me every moment.

Mison might try to blow A'Ran up, or the Council change its mind, or A'Ran would destroy everything to win his war, even if it meant losing her.

He felt the urge to destroy it, not save it.

They cannot destroy me when I will determine which world survives.

Ivan had stopped at Tver, to murder St Philip, while on his way to destroy the second wealthiest city in his tsardom - Great Novgorod.

The Colony would destroy us.

Deception is one of its chief means, and one of the great arts of skilful generalship is to deceive in order to destroy.

The most straightforward is to physically destroy an adversary's computers or critical network nodes.

Fascists can counter the malicious propaganda to destroy friendly relations with Germany by using this fact.

Yes, we should recognize how human ways of thinking can destroy the biosphere.

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