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Synonyms for destroy
dɪˈstrɔɪde·stroy
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destroyverb
Synonyms:
ruin, annihilate, waste, demolish, killdestroyverb
To cause destruction.
Hooligans destroy unprovoked
Synonyms:
annihilate, kill, waste, ruin, demolishdestroyverb
To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate
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ruin, waste, annihilate, demolish, killdestroyverb
To put down or euthanize.
Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
Synonyms:
kill, waste, ruin, demolish, annihilatedestroyverb
To defeat soundly.
Synonyms:
demolish, annihilate, waste, kill, ruindestroyverb
To remove data.
The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.
Synonyms:
annihilate, waste, demolish, ruin, kill
English Synonyms and Antonyms
destroy
Abolish, to do away with, bring absolutely to an end, especially as something hostile, hindering, or harmful, was formerly used of persons and material objects, a usage now obsolete except in poetry or highly figurative speech. Abolish is now used of institutions, customs, and conditions, especially those wide-spread and long existing; as, to abolish slavery, ignorance, intemperance, poverty. A building that is burned to the ground is said to be destroyed by fire. Annihilate, as a philosophical term, signifies to put absolutely out of existence. As far as our knowledge goes, matter is never annihilated, but only changes its form. Some believe that the wicked will be annihilated. Abolish is not said of laws. There we use repeal, abrogate, nullify, etc.: repeal by the enacting body, nullify by revolutionary proceedings; a later statute abrogates, without formally repealing, any earlier law with which it conflicts. An appellate court may reverse or set aside the decision of an inferior court. Overthrow may be used in either a good or a bad sense; suppress is commonly in a good, subvert always in a bad sense; as, to subvert our liberties; to suppress a rebellion. The law prohibits what may never have existed; it abolishes an existing evil. We abate a nuisance, terminate a controversy. Compare CANCEL; DEMOLISH; EXTERMINATE.
Synonyms:
abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, end, end, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, nullify, obliterate, overthrow, prohibit, remove, repeal, reverse, revoke, set aside, stamp out, subvert, supplant, suppress, terminateAntonyms:
authorize, cherish, confirm, continue, enact, establish, institute, introduce, legalize, promote, reinstate, renew, repair, restore, revive, set up, support, sustain
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
destroy, destructverb
do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
"The fire destroyed the house"
destroy, ruinverb
destroy completely; damage irreparably
"You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"
Synonyms:
demolish, destruct, bankrupt, ruin, smash, deflower, break, put downdemolish, destroyverb
defeat soundly
"The home team demolished the visitors"
Synonyms:
put down, demolish, destruct, crush, ruin, pulverise, smash, pulverizedestroy, put downverb
put (an animal) to death
"The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"; "the sick cat had to be put down"
Synonyms:
bring down, enter, ruin, disgrace, record, put down, degrade, discharge, lay, drop, unload, repose, set down, land, take down, demolish, demean, drop off, get down, destruct, place down, write down
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delete
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
destroyverb
Synonyms:
demolish, overturn, overthrow, subvert, raze, ruin, throw down, pull down, break up, sap the foundations ofdestroyverb
Synonyms:
annihilate, quench, put an end to, bring to noughtdestroyverb
Synonyms:
waste, ravage, desolate, devastate, devour, lay waste, make desolate, swallow up, ravage with fire and sworddestroyverb
Synonyms:
extirpate, eradicate, uproot, kill, slay, extinguish, carry off, root out, grub up, pluck up by the roots, cut up root and branch, strike at the root of, give a death blow to, scatter to the winds
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
destroyverb
Synonyms:
annihilate, undo, demolish, raze, desolate, devour, sack, dismantle, eradicate, exterminate, ruinAntonyms:
conserve, preserve, perpetuate, spare
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "destroy":
destroying, destruction, destroyed, ruin, destroys, demolish, annihilate, devastate, obliterate, wreck, crush, undermine, spoil, dismantle
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#317 | end | |
#657 | enter | |
#773 | land | |
#782 | record | |
#1618 | break | |
#1651 | remove | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2158 | drop | |
#3096 | kill | |
#3815 | reverse | |
#4324 | lay | |
#5264 | destruction | |
#5685 | discharge | |
#6266 | destroy | |
#6681 | destroyed | |
#8719 | undo | |
#10518 | terminate | |
#12398 | crush | |
#13003 | prohibit | |
#13346 | smash | |
#13640 | consume | |
#14164 | ruin | |
#14357 | destroying | |
#15547 | wreck | |
#16588 | repeal | |
#16683 | suppress | |
#17827 | undermine | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#21898 | bankrupt | |
#22284 | destroys | |
#22918 | revoke | |
#26615 | disgrace | |
#27471 | overthrow | |
#27695 | abolish | |
#28374 | unload | |
#28847 | eradicate | |
#28860 | degrade | |
#35497 | dismantle | |
#38211 | repose | |
#40873 | abate | |
#45245 | demolish | |
#51579 | subvert | |
#53491 | destruct | |
#55344 | supplant | |
#65899 | nullify | |
#66079 | annihilate | |
#68362 | exterminate | |
#72502 | obliterate | |
#80071 | annul | |
#80715 | devastate | |
#83175 | abrogate | |
#86679 | demean | |
#201455 | pulverize | |
#228927 | extirpate | |
#284974 | deflower |
How to use destroy in a sentence?
I have never had an experience like that, but I knew that I had to speak for my people and for all people who white supremacists would wish to oppress or destroy altogether, i stood up to them for the same reason I'm standing against the scholarship at my university.
In general, many microbes like to 'eat' organic compounds, especially certain lipids, for lunch, and can destroy the bulk of the organics before they have a chance to get preserved, iron can rapidly entomb or bind to the organics and make them unavailable to 'eat,' similar to encasing a sandwich in cement.
We're quite confident of our naval forces' ability to defend themselves, it seems they've attempted to destroy the equivalent of a Hollywood movie set.
Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.
It seeks to destroy diversity and enforce narrow uniformity. Evidence of a tolerant, diverse past is anathema, what it fears is memory and knowledge, which it cannot destroy.
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