Dictionary Definition
destroy
Verb
1 do away with, cause the destruction or undoing
of; "The fire destroyed the house" [syn: destruct]
2 destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You
have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears
ruined her make-up" [syn: ruin]
3 defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the
visitors" [syn: demolish]
4 as of animals; "The customs agents destroyed
the dog that was found to be rabid"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔɪ
- Hyphenation: de·stroy
Verb
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Translations
to damage beyond use or repair
- Czech: zničit
- Dutch: vernietigen, slopen
- Finnish: tuhota, hävittää
- German: zerstören, kaputtmachen, vernichten
- Hungarian: megsemmisít
- Swedish: förstöra
(computing) to remove data (e.g., from memory)
- Dutch: wissen
- Finnish: tuhota
- German: löschen
(colloquial) to defeat soundly
- Dutch: verpulveren, vernietigen
- Finnish: murskata (to crush)
- German: zerstören, vernichten
- Swedish: krossa, mosa, spöa
to put down or euthanize (e.g. an animal)
- Dutch: inslapen
- Finnish: lopettaa
- German: notschlachten
- Swedish: avliva, nödslakta
- ttbc Arabic: ً (dammara)
- ttbc Bosnian: uništiti
- ttbc Chinese: 破坏, 毁坏; 杀死
- ttbc Croatian: uništiti
- ttbc Dutch: vernietigen, kapot maken, slopen
- ttbc French: détruire
- ttbc Hebrew: להרוס (laharos) (1)
- ttbc Italian: distruggere; abbattere (4)
- ttbc Japanese: 破壊する; 滅ぼす
- ttbc Kurdish: ruxandin, hilweşandin, pûç kirin, xirab kirin, xopan kirin, kavil kirin, wêran kirin, îmha kirin, ,
- ttbc Russian: разрушать (razrushat')
- ttbc Serbian: uništiti
- ttbc Slovene: uničiti/uničevati
- ttbc Spanish: destruir
- ttbc Sumerian:
- ttbc Turkish: yok etmek
Extensive Definition
Destroy may refer to:
- Destroy (band), a Minneapolis Crust punk band
- Destroy 2, a short-lived Japanese noise punk band
- GFAS-X1 Destroy, a fictional weapon in the Gundam anime series
- Destroy (film) (1952), a Chinese film
- Destroy (album) (2004), by Hungarian metal band Ektomorf
- Destroy!, a large-format comic book published in the 1980s.
- Destroy, the pseudonym/pun which Penelope calls Troy in Homer's Odyssey
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abolish, abuse, afflict, aggrieve, annihilate, annul, assault, atomize, attack, baffle, balk, barbarize, batter, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow,
befoul, bereave of life,
best, bewitch, blast, blight, botch, brave, break down, break up, bring
to ruin, brutalize,
burn, butcher, cancel out, carry away,
carry off, carry on, challenge, checkmate, chloroform, circumvent, condemn, confound, confront, confute, consume, contradict, contravene, corrupt, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cripple, cross, crucify, crush, curse, cut down, cut off, damage, damn, dash, deal destruction, decapitate, decimate, defeat, defile, defy, demolish, deny, deprave, depredate, deprive of life,
desolate, despoil, devastate, devitalize, devour, disable, disadvantage, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish, dismantle, dispatch, dispose of, disprove, disrupt, disserve, dissolve, distress, do a mischief, do
away with, do evil, do for, do ill, do in, do to death, do wrong,
do wrong by, doom, drub, dynamite, elude, end, enfeeble, engorge, envenom, eradicate, execute, exhaust, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finish, finish off, fix, flummox, foil, frustrate, get into trouble,
go on, gobble, gobble up,
gut, gut with fire, hammer, harass, harm, havoc, hex, hide, hors de combat, hurt, immolate, impair, incinerate, infect, injure, interfere with, jinx, kill, knock the chocks, lambaste, lather, launch into eternity, lay
in ruins, lay waste, lick,
liquidate, loot, lynch, make away with, maltreat, mangle, mar, martyr, martyrize, maul, menace, mistreat, molest, mug, mutilate, negate, neutralize, nonplus, nullify, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrage, outrun, outsail, outshine, overthrow, overturn, perplex, persecute, pillage, play havoc with, play
hob with, poison,
pollute, prejudice, pull down, pulverize, purge, put, put away, put down, put to
death, put to sleep, quench, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, ravage, rave, raze, refute, remove from life,
reverse, riot, roar, rub out, rubble, ruin, ruinate, sabotage, sack, sacrifice, savage, scathe, scotch, settle, shatter, shipwreck, shoot, skin, skin alive, slaughter, slay, smash, sow chaos, spike, spoil, starve, stonewall, stop, storm, stump, swallow up, taint, take life, take off,
tear, tear around, tear
down, terminate,
terrorize, thrash, threaten, throw into disorder,
thwart, torment, torture, trash, trim, triumph over, trounce, unbuild, undermine, undo, unleash destruction, unleash
the hurricane, unmake,
upheave, upset, vandalize, vaporize, violate, waste, weaken, whip, wipe, wipe out, worst, wound, wrack, wreak havoc, wreak havoc
on, wreck, wrong