destroy
/dɪˈstɹɔɪ/
To damage beyond use or repair; to damage to the point that it effectively ceases to exist; To neutralize, undo a property or condition; To put down or euthanize
- he/she/it
- destroys
- past participle
- destroyed
Meanings
- 1
To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist
Everything I loved has been destroyed.
Tatoeba · AlanF_US · CC BY 2.0 FR
The city was destroyed by fire.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
To neutralize, undo a property or condition
- 3
To put down or euthanize
- 4
To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin
- 5
To utterly defeat; to crush
- 6
To remove datarare
- 7
To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build uprare
- 8
To penetrate sexually in an aggressive wayrare
- 9
To sing a song extremely poorlyrare
- 10
To eat food quickly, hungrily or completelyrare