Word Finder - destroyed

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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.

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(particularly of a child) soiled, muddied, especially as a result of a fall or spill.

She pointed to the destroyed telephone.

If it's not, you destroyed it, she insisted.

Maybe she read the pages and destroyed them, or someone else took them after Edith had seen them.

He destroyed the mines.

The few glasses of wine he had drunk and the conversation with this good-natured man had destroyed the mood of concentrated gloom in which he had spent the last few days and which was essential for the execution of his design.

Their friendship had been destroyed by one night of passion.

The battling immortals had nearly destroyed the human world in pursuit of one another.

He should not care if the two destroyed each other.

To move, or even breathe, would have destroyed the moment.

The fire destroyed everything else, Toni said.

If we found they were destroyed, it would take a big weight off our minds.

His phone was destroyed and his power drained.

The Kremlin, which was not destroyed, gleamed white in the distance with its towers and the belfry of Ivan the Great.

To study the skillful tactics and aims of Napoleon and his army from the time it entered Moscow till it was destroyed is like studying the dying leaps and shudders of a mortally wounded animal.

It's like a chess game, and the humans are pawns to be used and destroyed, he explained.

Tomorrow, this world will be destroyed if one—or both—of us don't step up.

Renewed by the blood, more sobs wracked her body as she thought of Damian and how badly she'd destroyed any plan Dustin or Jule could make.

There were balconies along the far side of the building that hadn't been destroyed.

He motioned toward a hole in the wall, and he and Jade and Ileana trailed her out of the destroyed building.

How noble of the beast that nearly destroyed the world once!

If he wanted Qatwal destroyed, he would find a way to do it.

The Council believes he's destroyed one planet and is about to destroy a second.

I didn't order it destroyed.

Interesting. Dusty found his mate and destroyed most of Florida.

He'd not said anything to her since the other night, when he'd almost destroyed the world.

It destroyed everything, and I was an only child from a small family.

His planet was destroyed, yet all he could think about was her.

He hadn't just destroyed any hope his planet had of recovering, he'd destroyed the woman he needed, too.

She wondered how he'd destroyed his own planet, whether his sisters were still safe.

Although, I suspect, if he has turned as many humans as it seems, he is too strong to be destroyed.

It was completely destroyed.

The bridges were all destroyed, and the old barriers from the war are back up.

The framework would have to be redesigned now, but it wasn't thoroughly destroyed.

The demon needed to be destroyed.

But Denton had destroyed that notion.

The gem can be destroyed to release its magic, but by doing so, you lose all that remains of your mother and me.

The others he hoped had died when the immortal world was destroyed months ago by the Grey God.

Six months ago, they lost their ability to move between worlds, mainly because the immortal world was destroyed.

He would've destroyed a world for her and refused to surrender the only reminder he retained.

Robertson, another political enemy of Conkling's, to the desirable post of Collector of the Port of New York, and thereby destroyed all prospects of party harmony.

In 1902 the greater part of the building was destroyed by fire.

It was destroyed by Hannibal in 216 B.C., but restored in 210; in 90 B.C. it served as the Roman headquarters in the Social war, and was successfully held against the insurgents.

Soon afterwards this temple also was destroyed.

This scheme got noised abroad, and was ruined by a decree of the Assembly of the 7th of November 1789, that no member of the Assembly could become a minister; this decree destroyed any chance of that necessary harmony between the ministry and the majority of the representatives of the nation which existed in England, and so at once overthrew Mirabeau's hopes.

We wanted liberty, but Buonaparte has destroyed it.

Can it be that all this has happened so quickly and has destroyed all that went before?

The image of her world being destroyed was hazy, fading.

They were not assailed by a great religious movement, but destroyed piecemeal by the revolt of tribes and districts.

He was described as chasing the British squadron all round the lake, but his encounters did not go beyond artillery duels at long range, and he allowed his enemy to continue in existence long after he might have been destroyed.

The molar teeth are six in number on each side, increasing in size from before backwards, and, as in the elephants, with a horizontal succession, the anterior teeth being lost before the full development of the posterior ones, which gradually move forward, taking the place of those that are destroyed by wear.