Vi fant 12 definisjoner av destroy på engelsk.
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| destroy - destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up" | ||
| ruin | ||
| burn down, fire, burn burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire; "The hut burned down"; "The mountain of paper went up in flames" | ||
| lay waste to, devastate, ravage, desolate, scourge, waste cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" | ||
| harry, ravage make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes | ||
| break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| bust, break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| vandalise, vandalize destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism; "vandalize the park" | ||
| do a job on destroy completely or make ugly or useless; "The dog did a job on my pillow"; "The seamstress did a job on my wedding gown" | ||
| subvert destroy completely; "we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis" | ||
| get cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble" | ||
| devour eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" | ||
| despoil, rape, plunder, violate, spoil destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country" | ||
| explode increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner; "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted" | ||
| consume engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy" | ||
| shipwreck destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked" | ||
| bust up, wrack, wreck smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car" | ||
| kick down, kick in open violently; "kick in the doors" | ||
| wash out lose color in the process of being washed; "The expensive shirt washed out in the German washing machine" | ||
| destroy - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house" | ||
| destruct | ||
| unmake, undo deprive of certain characteristics | ||
| kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods" | ||
| do away with, get rid of, extinguish, eliminate dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood" | ||
| self-destroy, self-destruct do away with oneself or itself; "The machine will self-destruct if you tamper with it" | ||
| destruct destroy (one's own missile or rocket); "The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons" | ||
| end bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" | ||
| fracture fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey" | ||
| sweep away, wipe out overwhelm emotionally; "Her swept her away" | ||
| interdict destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication | ||
| demolish, pulverise, pulverize defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors" | ||
| disassemble, break apart, dismantle, take apart, break up take apart into its constituent pieces | ||
| rase, raze, tear down, pull down, dismantle, take down, level reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture" | ||
| eradicate, exterminate, root out, extirpate, uproot kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe" | ||
| dilapidate bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse | ||
| demyelinate destroy the myelin sheath of; "the disease demyelinated the nerve fibers" | ||
| destroy - 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" | ||
| put down | ||
| kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods" | ||
| destroy - defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors" | ||
| demolish | ||
| get the better of, defeat, overcome win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" | ||
| smash break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow; "The window smashed" | ||
| swallow believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?" | ||
| cut to ribbons defeat totally; "We must cut the other team to ribbons!" | ||
