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Destroy
DESTROY, v.t. [L. To pile, to build.]
1. To demolish; to pull down; to separate the parts of an edifice, the union of which is necessary to constitute the thing; as, to destroy a house or temple; to destroy a fortification.
2. To ruin; to annihilate a thing by demolishing or by burning; as, to destroy a city.
3. To ruin; to bring to naught; to annihilate; as, to destroy a theory or scheme; to destroy a government; to destroy influence.
4. To lay waste; to make desolate.
Go up against this land, and destroy it. Isa 36.
5. To kill; to slay; to extirpate; applied to men or other animals.
Ye shall destroy all this people. Num 32.
All the wicked will he destroy. Psa 145.
6. To take away; to cause to cease; to put an end to; as, pain destroys happiness.
That the body of sin might be destroyed. Rom 6.
7. To kill; to eat; to devour; to consume. Birds destroy insects. Hawks destroy chickens.
8. In general, to put an end to; to annihilate a thing or the form in which it exists. An army is destroyed by slaughter, capture or dispersion; a forest, by the ax, or by fire; towns, by fire or inundation, etc.
9. In chimistry, to resolve a body into its parts or elements.
destroy appears in definitions for these words:
Abaddon Abate Abated Abolish Abolishable Abolished Abolishing Acraze Alkali All-blasting All-destroying All-murdering Allay Animosity Annihilate Annihilated Annihilating Annihilation Anticontagious Antipestilential Antisocial Apollyon Apothecary Appall Arson Assart Away Bad Bale Bar Barshot Beat Bee Bewreck Blast Blasted Blaster Blot Blow Break Breaker Business Butcher By Cabbage-tree Calcine Cancel Canker Canker-worm Cannonade Carthaginian Cataract Caustic Causticity Cautery Chief Companion Confound Consumable Consume Consumed Consumer Consuming Contraries Cord Corrupter Countercharm Counterpoison Crack Crucify Crucifying Cure Cut Cutter Damage Dash Deadly Death Deface Defamation Defend Deforming Deformity Deleterious Deluge Demolish Demolished Demolisher Demolishing Demolition Demoralize Demoralizing Deperdit Depopulate Depopulator Depredate Derogate Derogation Desolate Desolation Destroy Destroyable Destroyer Destruct Destructible Destruction Destructive Destructively Destructiveness Destructor Determine Devastate Device Devour Devoured Devourer Devouring Dilapidate Disable Disaccustom Disannulment Discharge Discouragement Disorganization Disorganize Disorganizer Disorganizing Dispropriate Dissolve Do Dock Drowning Ease Eat Efface Effaced Effacing Effective Empiricism Empoison Empoisonment Enamel End Enthusiasm Eradicate Eradicated Eradicative Erase Erasing Erroneous Escharotic Evert Evil Expiating Expire Expunge Expunged Expunging Extant Exterminate Exterminated Exterminating Extinction Extinguish Extinguishable Extinguished Extinguishing Extirpate Extirpated Extirpating Extirpator Faith Fallow Famish Felly Fight Foe For Forbear Fordo Fougade Fragile Frail Frequency Fruition Giant-killing Glutton Gust Harmattan Havock Heart-consuming Hurt Hurtful Ibis Ichneumon Iconoclast Inconsistence Inconsumptible Incursion Indestructible Indiscerptible Infatuate Infringe Injurious Instruct Inure Invalidate Invalidating Iodin Iron Irrational Janizary Jealous Kill Lava Lay Leveler Lose Lost Luxuriant Mad Make Man Martyr Mine More Mortify Moth Murder Mutilate Mutineer Neutral Neutralization Neutralize Neutralizer Neutralizing Never Nip Noxiousness Null Obey Obliterate Obliterated Obliterating Odd Olate Oppose Overthrow Overthrower Overturn Palsy Paralize Parricidal Perempt Perish Permanence Permanent Pernicious Persecute Pioneer Pluck Poison Poisoned Poling Pollock Pot Presumptive Prevaricate Prevarication Prosperity Prostrated Prostrating Pull Put Pygmy Quench Rag Rase Ravage Ravaged Raze Razing Recompose Remain Remains Remove Repair Reproduce Reproduction Resolution Rid Root Ruin Ruinate Ruined Ruiner Ruining Sacrifice Sacrificed Scath Scourge Seek Sell Senseless Severance Shipwreck Shipwrecked Short Sing Slaughtering Slay Slayer Slaying Smite Spare Sparing Speed Spill Spoil Spunge Stale Starve Stifle Stramash Strangle Strangling Strangulation Strengthen Stroy Strychnia Stump Subdue Subduer Subduing Subverted Subverting Suffocate Suffocation Suicide Supersedeas Suppress Suppressed Suppressing Suppression Supremacy Sweep Sweeten Take Talisman Tarnish Testing Throw Tillage Token Treatment Unabolishable Unbild Unconsulting Unconsumed Undemolished Underwork Underworking Undestroyed Undone Unextinct Unform Unlimited Unmake Unmaking Use Vermifuge Viciate Victim Vitiate Vivificate Waste Wasted Weapon Wear Widow-maker Wilt Wipe Wreck
Abaddon Abate Abated Abolish Abolishable Abolished Abolishing Acraze Alkali All-blasting All-destroying All-murdering Allay Animosity Annihilate Annihilated Annihilating Annihilation Anticontagious Antipestilential Antisocial Apollyon Apothecary Appall Arson Assart Away Bad Bale Bar Barshot Beat Bee Bewreck Blast Blasted Blaster Blot Blow Break Breaker Business Butcher By Cabbage-tree Calcine Cancel Canker Canker-worm Cannonade Carthaginian Cataract Caustic Causticity Cautery Chief Companion Confound Consumable Consume Consumed Consumer Consuming Contraries Cord Corrupter Countercharm Counterpoison Crack Crucify Crucifying Cure Cut Cutter Damage Dash Deadly Death Deface Defamation Defend Deforming Deformity Deleterious Deluge Demolish Demolished Demolisher Demolishing Demolition Demoralize Demoralizing Deperdit Depopulate Depopulator Depredate Derogate Derogation Desolate Desolation Destroy Destroyable Destroyer Destruct Destructible Destruction Destructive Destructively Destructiveness Destructor Determine Devastate Device Devour Devoured Devourer Devouring Dilapidate Disable Disaccustom Disannulment Discharge Discouragement Disorganization Disorganize Disorganizer Disorganizing Dispropriate Dissolve Do Dock Drowning Ease Eat Efface Effaced Effacing Effective Empiricism Empoison Empoisonment Enamel End Enthusiasm Eradicate Eradicated Eradicative Erase Erasing Erroneous Escharotic Evert Evil Expiating Expire Expunge Expunged Expunging Extant Exterminate Exterminated Exterminating Extinction Extinguish Extinguishable Extinguished Extinguishing Extirpate Extirpated Extirpating Extirpator Faith Fallow Famish Felly Fight Foe For Forbear Fordo Fougade Fragile Frail Frequency Fruition Giant-killing Glutton Gust Harmattan Havock Heart-consuming Hurt Hurtful Ibis Ichneumon Iconoclast Inconsistence Inconsumptible Incursion Indestructible Indiscerptible Infatuate Infringe Injurious Instruct Inure Invalidate Invalidating Iodin Iron Irrational Janizary Jealous Kill Lava Lay Leveler Lose Lost Luxuriant Mad Make Man Martyr Mine More Mortify Moth Murder Mutilate Mutineer Neutral Neutralization Neutralize Neutralizer Neutralizing Never Nip Noxiousness Null Obey Obliterate Obliterated Obliterating Odd Olate Oppose Overthrow Overthrower Overturn Palsy Paralize Parricidal Perempt Perish Permanence Permanent Pernicious Persecute Pioneer Pluck Poison Poisoned Poling Pollock Pot Presumptive Prevaricate Prevarication Prosperity Prostrated Prostrating Pull Put Pygmy Quench Rag Rase Ravage Ravaged Raze Razing Recompose Remain Remains Remove Repair Reproduce Reproduction Resolution Rid Root Ruin Ruinate Ruined Ruiner Ruining Sacrifice Sacrificed Scath Scourge Seek Sell Senseless Severance Shipwreck Shipwrecked Short Sing Slaughtering Slay Slayer Slaying Smite Spare Sparing Speed Spill Spoil Spunge Stale Starve Stifle Stramash Strangle Strangling Strangulation Strengthen Stroy Strychnia Stump Subdue Subduer Subduing Subverted Subverting Suffocate Suffocation Suicide Supersedeas Suppress Suppressed Suppressing Suppression Supremacy Sweep Sweeten Take Talisman Tarnish Testing Throw Tillage Token Treatment Unabolishable Unbild Unconsulting Unconsumed Undemolished Underwork Underworking Undestroyed Undone Unextinct Unform Unlimited Unmake Unmaking Use Vermifuge Viciate Victim Vitiate Vivificate Waste Wasted Weapon Wear Widow-maker Wilt Wipe Wreck
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