Destroy

Definition: Destroy

Destroy

Verb

1. Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house".

2. Destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up".

3. Defeat soundly: "The home team demolished the visitors".

4. As of animals: "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "destroy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Destroy \De*stroy"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Destroyed; present participle verb or noun Destroying.]. (references)

Synonyms: Destroy

Abrogation

Verb: abrogate, annul, cancel; destroy; abolish; revoke, repeal, rescind, reverse, retract, recall; abolitionize; overrule, override; set aside; disannul, dissolve, quash, nullify, declare null and void; disestablish, disendow; deconsecrate.

Confutation

Verb: confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; demolish, break; (destroy); overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate; silence; put to silence, reduce to silence; clinch an argument, clinch a question; give one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up; have, have on the hip.

Destroyer

Noun: destroyer; (destroy; ); cankerworm; (bane); assassin; (killer); executioner; (punish); biblioclast, eidoloclast, iconoclast, idoloclast; nihilist.

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Deterioration

Blight, rot; corrode, erode; wear away, wear out; gnaw, gnaw at the root of; sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up; disorganize, dismantle, dismast; destroy.

Hopelessness

Inspire despair, drive to despair; Noun: disconcert; dash one's hopes, crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes; hope against hope.

Inaction

Undo, do away with; take down, take to pieces; destroy.

Inexistence

Annihilate, render null, nullify; abrogate; destroy; take away; remove; (displace); obliterate, extirpate.

Inexpedience

Destroy.

Crosswords: Destroy

Mr. President, militant women are out to destroy college football in this country (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

Though the fire seemed to spread through the quarter, I stood on that deck, fearful he would come out again from the very river, like some monster, to destroy us both (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Nuke it, flame it, destroy it -- it hurts me to know it's out there (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

The Ring will not save Gondor it only has the power to destroy, you must release me. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

There's no limit to what he could do. He could destroy the earth (The Day the Earth Stood Still; writing credit: Harry Bates; Edmund H. North)

Fools run rings to break up, something they'll never destroy. (Notorious; performing artist: Duran Duran)

I'm gonna destroy my ego (Die Another Day; performing artist: Madonna; writing credit: Madonna)

That no one in the world could dare destroy (This Used To Be My Playground; performing artist: Madonna)

But I've seen, I don't want love to destroy me (Family Portrait; performing artist: Pink)

You'll see, I don't want love to destroy me (Family Portrait; performing artist: Pink)

It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it. (references; author: unknown)

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. (references; author: unknown)

If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. (references; author: unknown)

Warsaw - Québec: How Not to Destroy a City (1974)

Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)

Use Once and Destroy (1995)

Search and Destroy (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Conspiracy to Destroy Black Women (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Destroy All Monsters (reference)

• Hellsing - Search and Destroy (Vol. 3) (reference)

• Search and Destroy (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Destroy Erase Improve (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Thrasher: Skate And Destroy (reference)

• Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy (Jewel Case) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A computer generated image displays focused, positively charged atomic particles. Proton beam therapy uses protons to destroy cancer cells, rather than electrons which are used in traditional radiation therapy. See artwork: GA-17 Horizons of Cancer Research. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Don't Destroy Parental Powers By Neglect : Gonorrhea The Great Sterilizer. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"Smoke and you destroy yourself." / WHO/Novosti photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Line engraving after a sketch by Theodore R. Davis, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863, depicting the 25 February 1863 operation in which a dummy ironclad (left) was floated down the Mississippi River by the U.S. Navy, causing the Confederates to destroy the captured ironclad USS Indianola. CSS Queen of the West is depicted at the right. Credit: NAVY.

Ludendorff bridge at Remagen after its capture on March 7, 1945, showing U.S. 1st Army troops crossing the Rhine into Germany. Failure of the Germans to destroy the bridge gave U.S. forces their first foothold east of the Rhine / International News photo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Submarine Infernal machine intended to destroy the "Minnesota". Credit: Library of Congress.

The Confederates under Stuart crossing the Potomac at McCoy's Ferry to destroy the Baltimore & Ohio Canal. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Dies to destroy the Axis. The owner of this small Midwest factory inspects dies for making incendiary bombs. Note doll's furniture on the wall, the company's previous product. Complete conversion of. Credit: Library of Congress.

Erosion beginning to destroy farmland near Farmville, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't talk, the web is spun for you with invisible threads, keep out of it, help to destroy it--spies are listening. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy. (Second Treatise of Government)

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social. (reference)

Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms--and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Destroy the cave Ignorance, and you destroy the mole Crime

Then there was no loneliness, for a man could people his brain with friends, and he could find his enemies and destroy them

For I apprehended every moment that he would dash me against the ground, as we usually do any little hateful animal which we have a mind to destroy.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

But most kidney diseases destroy the nephrons slowly and silently. (references)

Researchers are working to improve procedures to destroy these viruses. (references)

Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with drugs that can destroy cancer cells. (references)

Business

Police continued to evict, detain arbitrarily, and destroy the homes of peasant leaders in the state of Veracruz. (references)

The local waste management companies often lack the capacity to destroy and process the waste collected and therefore buy the service from a company specializing in the destruction of waste, e.g. SAKAB, RECI Industri,Stena Miljo, Sysav. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

The manager of the company reportedly called in the police because the employees had started to destroy the company's equipment. (references)

Antigua and Barbuda

The protesters alleged that the development would destroy the mangrove swamps, which are of environmental importance to the local fishing community, and lead to beach erosion and flooding. (references)

Korea

An article in the KWP newspaper in 1999 criticized "imperialists and reactionaries" for trying to use ideological and cultural infiltration, including religion, to destroy socialism from within. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

Efforts to track down and destroy the ASG have been unsuccessful. (references)

Russia

Under the CTR Program, the U.S. is helping Russia destroy its CW stockpile and associated infrastructure. (references)

Guinea

However, new taxes threaten to debilitate or destroy Internet service providers so the future of Internet in Guinea is unclear. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

Under emergency regulations, authorities may open and destroy mail based on security considerations. (references)

Libya

The Government may seize and destroy property belonging to "enemies of the people" or those who "cooperate" with foreign powers. (references)

Russia

The perpetrators reportedly raped some of the victims, extorted money, and later set many of the houses on fire to destroy evidence. (references)

Indigenous People

Brazil

Nonindigenous invaders destroy the environment and wildlife, spread disease, and provoke violent confrontations. (references)

Colombia

For example, in May leaders of the Arhuacos people told the press that they fear that the civil war could destroy their tribe as they become caught in the crossfire between the FARC and the AUC. (references)

Minorities

Ethiopia

Many of the Christians began to destroy the construction site, and violence broke out. (references)

Political Economy

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Video and audio recordings and software are being counterfeited despite the government's efforts to seize and destroy pirated goods. (references)

Afghanistan

In 2000 the Taliban banned cultivation of the opium poppy but failed to destroy the existing stockpile, reportedly the world's largest. (references)

Colombia

The FARC continued its practice of using gas canisters as mortars to destroy small towns, indiscriminately wounding government officials and civilians in the process. (references)

Political Rights

Burma

In retaliation the junta launched a sustained and systematic campaign to destroy the NLD without formally banning it; the authorities have pressured many thousands of NLD members and local officials to resign and closed party offices throughout the country. (references)

Trade

China

The new requirements apply to all shipments departing from the US or Japan beginning January 1, 2000, and target the elimination of pinewood nematodes, softwood pests that can destroy trees. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

They should stop for a presidential motorcade, stand for the national anthem, and under no circumstances destroy or deface a portrait of the President. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "destroy": destroy one's hopes ♦ destroy oneself ♦ search and destroy mission. Additional references.

Ending with "destroy": search-and-destroy.

Containing "destroy": let's-destroy-the-party-from-within, search-and-destroy mode.

Albanian

shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, demolish, depolarise, depose, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, sink, spill, wreck), rrënoj (beggar, collapse, depredate, do for, exhaust, ravage, ruin, vandalize, waste), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), fik (douse, extinguish, fig, fig tree, out, ruin, slake, switch off, turn off, ungear, wipe out), bëj i padobishëm, asgjësoj (annihilate, decimate, devour, disannul, eliminate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fast, finish, finish off, frustrate, liquidate, overturn, rub out, scathe, shake down, slate, smite, stultify, trample down, unbuild, undo, unmake, uproot). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هدم (blight, demolish, demolition, destruction, do away with, level, pluck, pull down, sap, smash, take apart, tear, tear down, total), ‏تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), ‏خرب (blight, desolate, devastate, dilapidate, dilapidated, fallen, go to pot, gum, harm, harry, havoc, overthrow, play havoc with, pull down, ravage, ruin, ruined, ruinous, sabotage, spoil, waste, wreck), ‏أباد (annihilate, devour, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, mow, polish off), ‏دمر (annihilate, blast, break down, demolish, desolate, devastate, flatten, immolate, overthrow, prey, pull down, pulverize, ravage, ruin, smash, subvert, unbuild, wrack, wreck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

срутвам (demolish, unbuild), унищожавам (annihilate, consume, crush, demolish, devour, eat up, exterminate, extinguish, kill, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, scotch, smash, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), разрушавам (disrupt, havoc, pull down, ravage, ruin, take down, throw down, unbuild), поразявам (amaze, astound, attaint, defeat, dismay, flabbergast, impress, overwhelm, plague, smite, stare, strike down, wow), погубвам (kill, ruin, subvert, undo), изтребвам (annihilate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate). (various references)

Chinese 

隳 (acute, overthrow), 破壞 (break, wreck), 僨 (instigate, ruin), 吃 (eat, eradicate, receive, stammer), 沮 (to stop), 殲滅 (annihilate, wipe out), 殘 (cruel, disabled, incomplete, injure, oppressive, ruin, savage, spoil), 摧毀 (wreck), 摧 (break, devastate, ravage, repress), 毁坏 (Destroyed, Destroying, Destruction, Dilapidate, Dilapidated, Dilapidating, Gutted, Gutting), 毀滅 (perish, ruin), 剿 , 墮 (degenerate, fall, overthrow), 勦 . (various references)

Czech

zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), znièit (annihilate, blast, demolish, devastate, devour, do for, do in, eat up, expunge, infringe, Mar, overthrow, overturn, ruin, smite, spoil, take out, wreck), zmařit (baffle, crush, ditch, foil, frustrate, scotch, stave off, thwart, upset), zbořit (batter, demolish, knock down), utratit (expend, go through, outlay, spend, use up), rozbořit, rozbít (break, break up, bust, crack, dash, pitch, shatter, smash, sunder, wreck), odpravit (despatch, dispatch, put to death). (various references)

Danish

ødelægge (quash). (various references)

Dutch

verwoesten (damage, destruction, quash, ruin), vernietigen (abrogate, quash), vernielen (quash). (various references)

Esperanto

detrui (quash), pereigi (ruin). (various references)

Faeroese

spilla (coddle, damage, injure, pamper, pet, quash, spoil), leggja í oyði (quash), beina fyri (quash). (various references)

Farsi 

نابودساختن , ویران کردن (Demolish, Desolate, Devastate, Gaunt, Harry, Havoc, Knockout, Ravage, Raze, Rubble, Ruinate, Throw), تباه کردن (Deprave, Gangrene, Vitiate), خراب کردن (Amortize, Botch, Corrupt, Demolish, Deteriorate, Devastate, Dilapidate, Disfigure, Impair, Muck, Muddle, Ruin, Ruinate, Unbuild, Undo, Unmake, Vitiate, Wrack, Wreck). (various references)

Finnish

turmella (damage, deprave, do damage, harm, hurt, injure, mar, ruin, spoil), tuhota (annihilate, damage, devastate, lay waste, ruin, undo, wreck), torjua (avert, reject, repress, tend off, ward off), teilata, tärvellä (ruin, spoil), raiskata (rape, ruin), lopettaa (close, complete, conclude, end, finish, leave, put down, put to sleep, stop), hävittää (annihilate, devastate, exterminate, lay . . waste, misappropriate, ravage, wipe out). (various references)

French

ravager (desolate, devastate), détruire (demolish, desolate), démolir (demolish). (various references)

Frisian

ferniele (quash), ferneatigje (quash). (various references)

German

zerstören (blast, blight, demolish, distroy, extinguish, gut, kill, quash, raze, ruin, sink, spoil, to demolish, to destroy, to destruct, to kill, vandalize, wreck), vernichten (abrogate, annihilate, blast, blight, consume, crush, damn, defeat, do away with, exterminate, kill, kill off, obliterate, put down, quash, to annihilate, to blast, to crush, to defeat, to demolish, to destroy, to kill, undo). (various references)

Greek 

καταστρέφω (annihilate, blast, blemish, blight, decimate, deface, deflower, devastate, disrupt, do for, impair, kill, ravage, ruin, shake down, spoil, undo, wreck). (various references)

Hebrew 

להשם (alarm, devastate, horrify, ruin), לנתץ (demolish, disrupt, pull down, smash), לספות (perish, sweep away), לסתור (contradict, disarray, dishevel, invalidate, oppose, rebut, refute, upset), לרושש (clean out, impoverish, ruin), לבקוק (empty), לבלוק (lay waste), להרוס (bane, blight, demolish, havoc, pull down, ravage, ruin, shatter, tear down, wreck), להדביר (conquer, exterminate, overpower, vanquish), הרס (bane, destruction, havoc, ravage, ruin, wrack, wreckage), להאביד (ruin), לשחת (hurt, kill, ruin, spoil, waste), להשחית (corrupt, damage, debase, debauch, deprave, mangle, pervert, spoil, vitiate), להשמיד (annihilate, exterminate, extirpate, lay waste, obliterate, scotch, smash, wipe out), לכות (beat, crush, pound), לאבד (annihilate, lose, waste), לחבל (damage, injure, make mischief, sabotage, wound), לחמוס (maraud, usurp), לעשות שמות (annihilate, cause havoc, play havoc with), לקצוץ (allocate, chop, cut), לשבור (break, fracture, rend, ruin, shatter to pieces, snap), להחריב (devastate, ruin, tear down). (various references)

Hungarian

tönkretesz (blemish, cripple, crock, do for, flatten out, perish, ruin, scathe, spoil, to batter, to blast, to blemish, to bring to ruin, to crash, to craze, to disorder, to do for, to hamstring, to lay flat, to lay low, to ravage, to scathe, to spoil, to vandalize, to wreck), ront (accentuate, aggravate, quash, to debase, to muddy, to worsen), rombol (quash), pusztít (depredate, to rave, waste), leront (spoil, to debase, to deteriorate, to vitiate), elpusztít (consume, demolish, devastate, devour, Harry, havoc, perish, slay, to blast, to canker, to consume, to desolate, to destroy, to devastate, to do away with, to harry, to kill off, to lay waste, to prang, to ravage, to scathe, to scorch, to waste). (various references)

Indonesian

merusakkan (deface, deleterious, desolate, foozie, queer, wreck), menumpurkan, mendestruksi, gempur (attack, storm). (various references)

Irish

loit. (various references)

Italian

distruggere (abolishes, blast, consume, dash, exterminate, kill, nip, obliterate, overwhelm, quash, rase, raze, shatter, shoot down, smash, smash up, tear apart, undo, unmake, wreck). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

剿 , 勦 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そう (all, aspect, bed, cellar, class, conception, countenance, depository, elevator, ever, ex-, feel pain, former, formerly, general, go around, godown, granary, gross, idea, layer, magazine, monk, never, once before, originate, phase, priest, seam, start, stream, suffer, thought, to accompany, to be added to, to be adjusted to, to become married, to comply with, to follow, to marry, to meet, to run along, to satisfy, to suit, treasury, warehouse, whole), しょう (actor, artisan, award, bruise, buy, call, carpenter, catch, chapter, commander, cut, drink, eat, gash, general, government, hurt, idea, illness, important point, injury, label, leader, make up for, means, mechanic, medal, phenomenon, prize, put on, quotient, ride in, scar, scratch, section, send for, take, to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder, upper part, weak point, wear, workman, wound). (various references)

Korean 

파괴하십시요. (various references)

Manx

stroie (annihilate, dissipate, dissipation, kill off, put down, waste, waste wealth), naardey (annihilate, decay, fade, waste), cur mow (annihilate, blot out, decay, ruin). (various references)

Norwegian

ødelegge (devastate). (various references)

Papiamen

destruí (quash), destrosá (quash). (various references)

Pig Latin

estroyday.(various references)

Polish

niszczyć (quash). (various references)

Portuguese

destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, depredate, devour, dilapidate, douse, eat, end, explode, extinguish, finish off, havoc, impair, kill, mine, obliterate, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, raze, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck). (various references)

Romanian

strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck). (various references)

Russian 

уничтожать (annihilate, avoid, crush, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill out, obliterate, uncreate, wipe out). (various references)

Scottish

sgrios (destroyed, destruction, ruin, ruin : air sgrios), mill (injure, mar). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

upropastiti (blight, havoc, make a hash of cutting, muck up, muff, murder, ruin, screw up, spoil, vitiate, wrack), uništiti (annihilate, come to grief, dash, do away with, do for, exterminate, lay low, liquidate, obliterate, polish off, take out, unmake, waste, weed out, wipe out, wreck), uništavati (exterminate, unbuild), slomiti (break, crack, crush, fracture, shatter), slistiti (devour), razoriti (blight), potući (drub, outclass, outfight, scupper, trounce), porušiti (demolish, level, pull down, rase, raze, subvert, tear down), iskoreniti (deracinate, do away with, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root, root out, root up, unroot, uproot). (various references)

Spanish

destruir (demolish, encourage, invalidate, kill, knock down, pulp, quash, ravage, shatter, smash). (various references)

Swedish

förstöra (bugger, butcher, crab, demolish, devastate, dilapidate, muff, perish, quash, rape, ruin, shatter, sink, spoil, undo, waste, wreck), förinta (annihilate, blast, extinguish, quash, wither). (various references)

Turkish

yıkmak (batter down, blast, blow down, break down, confound, dash, demolish, do for, drag down, explode, extinguish, housebreak, knock down, knock over, level, overthrow, pull dawn, puncture, ravage, ruin, shatter, shoot down, split, subvert, take down, unbuild), tahrip etmek (batter down, blow up, demolish, devastate), tüketmek (consume, deplete, dispose of, drain, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, extinguish, finish, spend, swallow up, use up, waste, wear away, wear out, whittle away, whittle off, work out), mahvetmek (bang up, bankrupt, barbarize, be ruin of smb., beat smb. hollow, bring to ruin, bugger, bugger up, canker, cook, corrupt, cut up, damn, devastate, dish, do for, exterminate, finish, kill, knock into a cocked hat, lay in ruins, lay low, make havoc of, play havoc with, pulverize, queer, ruin, sink, skunk, slaughter, smash, smash up, split, take smb. to the cleaners, undo, wallop, work havoc, wreck), imha etmek (annihilate, cut off, demolish, dispose of, exterminate, extirpate, throw down), harap etmek (devastate, dilapidate, make havoc of, play havoc with, ravage, ruin, shatter, tear up, waste, work havoc), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), ümidini yıkmak, öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, dispatch, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap). (various references)

Turkmen 

syndyrmak (abolish, annul), opurmak, яumur, яumrulmak (demolish), яegsan etmek (obliterate). (various references)

Ukrainian

руйнувати (attack, baffle, blight, cast down, confound, demolish, devour, dilapidate, disappoint, explode, havoc, ruin, shake down, wrack, wreck), розбивати (batter, break, crack, defeat, demolish, outbreak, split, stave in), ломати, псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste). (various references)

Welsh

distrywio, dinistrio, difetha (spoil, waste), difa (consume, devour), anrheithio (plunder, prey, spoil). (various references)

tar. (various references)

abscidantur, abscide, abscidentur, absciderunt, abscides, abscidet, abscidetur, abscidi, abscidisset, abscidit, abscisa, abscisae, abscisam, abscisi, absciso, abscisum, abscisus, accidat, acciderant, acciderat, accidere, accideret, acciderit, acciderunt, accidissent, accidisset, accidit, accido, adnullabunt, adoleas, adolebant, adolebat, adolebatur, adolebis, adolebit, adolebitis, adolebitque, adolebitur, adolebuntque, adolendum, adolens, adolentes, adolere, adolerent, adoleret, adoletur, adsolati, annihilare, annullare, annullo, attero, cassa, casso, concidam, concidat, concidens, concident, concidentur, conciderant, concidere, conciderent, conciderunt, concides, concidet, concidi, concidisset, concidisti, concidit, concidite, concido, concisam, concisas, concise, concisus, confundo, consumo, contrita, contritae, contritaeque, contriti, contritis, contrito, contritos, contritum, contritus, contriverim, contriverit, contrivero, contriverunt, contrivi, contrivisset, contrivisti, contrivit, corrumpo, deleo, demoliar, demolient, demolientes, demolientur, demolierunt, demolietur, demolire, demolirer, demolita, demoliti, demolitum, demolitur, demolitus, demoliuntur, depascatur, depasci, depasti, depastus, destruam, destruantur, destruas, destruatur, destructa, destructae, destructam, destructi, destructum, destrue, destruendi, destruens, destruent, destruentes, destruentur, destruere, destrueret, destrues, destruesque, destruet, destruetur, destrui, destruimus, destruit, destruo, destruxerant, destruxerit, destruxerunt, destruxeruntque, destruxi, destruxisti, destruxistis, destruxit, destruxitque, dilapidare, diruam, diruerunt, diruo, diruta, disperdam, disperdamque, disperdamus, disperdant, disperdas, disperdat, disperde, disperdendam, disperdens, disperdentes, disperdentur, disperdere, disperderem, disperderent, disperderes, disperderet, disperderit, disperdes, disperdet, disperdi, disperdiderunt, disperdidit, disperdimini, disperdisti, disperdit, disperdite, disperdunt, dissoluta, dissolutae, dissolutas, dissolutis, dissolutum, dissolutus, dissolvam, dissolvantur, dissolvat, dissolvatur, dissolvebant, dissolvenda, dissolventur, dissolvere, dissolverem, dissolveris, dissolverunt, dissolvetur, dissolvi, dissolvisset, dissolvisti, dissolvit, dissolvitur, edant, edat, edatis, ede, edebant, edebat, edendo, edent, edente, edentes, edentibus, edere, ederent, ederit, edes, edetis, edetur, edit, edite, edunt, effligo, effligo, efflixi, efflectum, efflixi, elidantur, elidatur, elides, elidet, elidit, elisa, elisabeth, elisi, elisisti, elisit, elisus, eradico, eruam, eruamini, eruaris, eruas, eruat, eruatis, erue, eruebamque, eruens, eruent, eruentur, eruere, erueret, eruerit, eruero, eruerunt, erues, eruet, erui, eruimus, eruisset, eruissetis, eruisti, eruit, eruite, eruperant, eruperunt, erupimus, erupta, eruti, erutus, esaiam, esu, esum, esus, eversos, eversus, evertam, evertant, evertat, evertens, evertent, evertentes, evertere, everterent, everteret, evertet, evertimus, evertisti, evertit, excidant, excidatis, excidebantur, exciderat, excideris, exciderit, exciderunt, excidisti, excidit, exciditur, excisi, exciso, excisum, excisus, extincta, extinctae, extincti, extinctum, extinctus, extinguas, extinguat, extinguentis, extinguere, extingueretur, extinguet, extinguetur, extinguit, extinguuntur, extinxerunt, exurens, exuret, exurit, exuserit, exusit, exusta, exustae, exustas, exustio, exustionem, exustum, helisu, iesesi, interemerunt, interemistis, interfecerant, interfecere, interfecerint, interfecero, interfecerunt, interfeci, interfecisti, interfecistis, interfecit, interfecta, interfectae, interfecti, interfectique, interfectis, interfectisque, interfecto, interfectorum, interfectos, interfectum, interfectus, interfice, interficere, interficerem, interficerent, interficerentur, interficeres, interficeret, interficeretur, interfici, interficiam, interficiamini, interficiamus, interficiant, interficiantur, interficias, interficiat, interficiatur, interficiebam, interficiebamque, interficiebant, interficiebantur, interficiebat, interficiemus, interficiendi, interficiendum, interficiens, interficient, interficientem, interficientes, interficientium, interficientque, interficientur, interficies, interficiet, interficietur, interficit, interficite, interficitis, interficiunt, interim, interimerent, iuguolo, lacerabis, lacerabunt, lacerabuntur, lacerandum, lacerans, lacerantes, lacerare, lacerata, laceratum, laceratus, laceraverunt, laceret, lacero, mactabis, mactabitur, mactabunt, mactari, mactatis, mactatur, mactaveris, mactaverit, mactaverunt, mactavit, mactavitque, mactet, mortificabis, mortificamur, mortificare, mortificat, mortificate, mortificati, mortificationem, mortificatis, mortificatus, obed, obruo, obtrivit, perdam, perdamque, perdamus, perdas, perdat, perdatis, perde, perdendas, perdendi, perdendos, perdendum, perdens, perdentur, perdere, perderent, perderes, perderet, perdes, perdet, perdetur, perdideris, perdiderit, perdiderunt, perdidi, perdidisti, perdidit, perdis, perdit, perdita, perditam, perditi, perditis, perditorum, perditum, perditura, perditus, perdo, perdunt, peremerunt, peremit, peremptores, perimeretur, perversa, perversae, perversarum, perverse, perversi, perverso, perversorum, perversus, pervertat, perverteret, perverterunt, pervertes, pervertet, pervertit, pervertitis, rapere, raperent, rapiant, rapias, rapiat, rapiatur, rapiebat, rapiemur, rapiens, rapient, rapientem, rapientes, rapientis, rapiet, rapietur, rapit, rapite, rapitur, rapiunt, rapta, raptam, rapti, raptis, rapto, raptus, rapueram, rapuerant, rapuerat, rapuerit, rapuerunt, rapui, rapuissent, rapuit, rescindentes, ruens, ruent, ruentes, ruentesque, ruentibus, ruere, ruerit, ruerunt, ruet, ruique, ruisse, ruit, ruituri, rumpat, rumpatur, rumpebatur, rumpit, rumpuntur, ruperunt, rupisti, rupit, rupti, ruptis, rupto, rutam, sublata, sublati, sublatis, sublato, sublatoque, sublatum, sublatus, subruo subruti subrutum, subversa, subversae, subversarum, subversas, subversis, subversores, subversum, subversus, subvertam, subvertat, subvertens, subvertent, subvertentem, subvertentes, subvertentur, subverterat, subvertere, subverteret, subverteretis, subverterit, subverterunt, subvertet, subverti, subvertisset, subvertit, subvertite, subvertitis, subvertunt, sustulerat, sustulerunt, sustuli, sustulimus, sustulissemus, sustulissent, sustulisti, sustulistis, sustulit, tollam, tollamque, tollamus, tollant, tollar, tollas, tollat, tollatur, tolle, tollebant, tollebat, tollebatis, tollebatque, tollemus, tollendo, tollens, tollensque, tollent, tollentes, tollentibus, tollentque, tollentur, tollere, tollerem, tollerent, tollerentur, tolleret, tolles, tollesque, tollet, tolletis, tolletisque, tolletque, tolletur, tollis, tollit, tollite, tollitis, tollitur, tollo, tollor, tolluntur, versa, versae, versaque, versi, versis, versos, versum, versumque, versus, vertam, vertatur, verte, vertebatur, vertens, vertente, vertentes, verterat, verterem, verterent, verterit, verterunt, verteruntque, vertetur, verti, vertissem, vertisset, vertisti, vertit, vertite, vertitis, vertitque, vertitur, vertunt. (various references)

parshta. (various references)

bereofan, fordon, forleosan, ofslean. (various references)

besillier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "destroy": destroyed, destroyer, destroyers, destroying, destroys. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Destroy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adlestrop, Dastor, Densitron, dentory, destory, destra, destroyd, destry, Detory, Detskoye, dextro, Dictory, distri, distro, distroy, Ducorroy, Estroil, Nestroy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: stroyed.

-1 letter: doters, dryest, oyster, sorted, stored, storey, strode, toyers.

-2 letters: doers, doest, dorty, doser, doter, dotes, drest, dyers, oyers, redos, resod, rosed, roset, rotes, ryots, store, story, stroy, styed, tores, torse, toyed, toyer, treys, trode, troys, tyers, tyred, tyres, tyros, yores.

-3 letters: deys, doer, does, dore, dors, dory, dose, dost, dote, dots, doty, drys.

+1 letter: destroys, drystone, oystered, storeyed.

+2 letters: destroyed, destroyer, desultory, dosimetry, hysteroid, roystered.

+3 letters: arytenoids, depositary, depository, destroyers, destroying, keystroked, overstayed, proselyted, pterygoids, rhytidomes, understory.

+4 letters: countryside, decryptions, dehydrators, designatory, desultorily, dexterously, discourtesy, dystrophies, heterodynes, hydrolysate, hydrometers, hydrophytes, keyboardist, pyrethroids, skyrocketed, stereotyped, troglodytes, tyrocidines.

+5 letters: adulterously, biodiversity, countrysides, cysticercoid, dehydrations, demonstrably, densitometry, dispensatory, dynamometers, hydrogenates, hydrolysates, hydrolyzates, hydrometeors, hydropathies, hydroxylates, keyboardists, overmodestly, postdelivery, proselytised, proselytized, pterodactyls, rehydrations, sacerdotally, stonyhearted, storyboarded, surefootedly, thunderously, tremendously, typefounders, wordsmithery.