Destroy synonyms and antonyms
dĭ-stroi'
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Part of speech:
To damage (someone's reputation, for example) severely.
To get rid of by destroying completely:
The definition of impair is to hinder or weaken something.
To press forward; crowd (into, against, etc.)
To reduce to nonexistence:
To destroy (a rocket, etc.) deliberately by remote control
Ruin is defined as to break or destroy something.
To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
(Medicine) To remove completely (a body organ or part), as by surgery, disease, or radiation.
To make indecipherable; to obliterate
(Archaic) To scrape or graze; wound slightly
To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal.
make mincemeat of
To bring to nothing
cause the downfall of
To bring to nothing
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To raid; plunder; pillage
To reduce anything by one in ten, or ten percent.
To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
To blow up or destroy with dynamite
To be wrecked
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To move with great speed or power:
To put an end to; to do away with. [First attested in the early 16th century.]
To wear (something) away by erosion:
To sink (a ship) deliberately; scuttle.
Pulverize is to crush into powder, or to demolish.
To damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge.
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To deprive of money or property by violence; loot
To eradicate is defined as to completely destroy or wipe something out.
(Intransitive, idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
To extinguish by stamping.
To do damage to
To bring to nothing
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To expend; use up:
To convert (holdings or assets) into cash
To cause to disappear or vanish; dispel:
To bring to nothing
To subdue forcibly:
(Intransitive, obsolete) To engage in robbery; to plunder.
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(Archaic) To seize and carry away by force.
To damage something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
To eliminate completely; annihilate.
To rub out, as from a surface; erase; wipe out; obliterate
sweep-away
(Idiomatic) To overwhelm someone emotionally; sweep someone off their feet.
To dispirit or emotionally defeat
Separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
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burn to the ground
To bring to nothing
To destroy oneself.
To make a sudden loud noise:
wrench apart
To bring to nothing
(Informal, Australia) to add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
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(American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass.
To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
To cut off or damage a limb or other important part of (a person or animal)
To cause to come into forceful contact with something:
To inflict injury as if by treading heavily:
To injure, disable, or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body.
Gut means to remove the internal parts of someone or something.
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To remove (something written, for example) by rubbing, wiping, or scraping.
To injure or destroy by sabotage
To kill.
(Intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
To scorch is to burn or heat until blackened or withered, or to attack fiercely.
(Football) To charge (the quarterback) in a blitz
To kill (animals) especially for food; butcher.
build (antonym)
To build is defined as to construct, create, establish or put together.
establish (antonym)
To cause (an institution, for example) to come into existence or begin operating; found; set up.
defeat (related)
To do better than (another) in a competition or battle; win victory over; beat:
kill (related)
To thwart passage of; veto:
Causing devastation
Causing great injury, destruction, or ruin; fatal; deadly
Tending or seeking to subvert, overthrow, or destroy (an established government, institution, belief, etc.)
(Colloquial) To completely destroy.
(Printing) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
To convert or be converted into vapor.
Sink is defined as to go down slowly, or to drop beneath the surface or normal level.
Dismantle is defined as to take apart or take to pieces.
To put an end to; kill
(Figuratively, colloquial) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one's anger at somebody).
To go away; leave:
To overcome emotionally
Plunder is defined as to take by force or to rob.
The act of deracinating; uprooting
To bring to nothing
To destroy or remove completely; exterminate; abolish
To quash is to suppress or put an end to something.
To ravage is to destroy something or cause severe destruction.
To kill (an animal, for instance) as a religious sacrifice.
To crush; subdue; put an end to
To cause (an embryo or fetus) to be expelled so as to end its life
To end, prohibit, or keep something from being known, heard, discussed, or seen.
root-up
To dig or pull up by the roots; to deracinate.
knock to pieces
To bring to nothing
The definition of desolate is to abandon or make deserted.
put-a-damper-on
(Idiomatic) To stop people from enjoying an activity
To fell is to knock down, or is the past tense of "fall" and is defined as that you have fallen down.
To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.
To vitiate is to corrupt, invalidate or weaken morally.
To counteract is to act in opposition to or against some force in order to neutralize the force.
To kill a living being.
To repeal is defined as to formally withdraw, or to take something back.
pull to pieces
To bring to nothing
To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
bring to ruin
To bring to nothing
To drive away; cause to vanish:
To dispel is defined as to drive away or make disappear.
make-short-work-of
(Idiomatic) To deal with or overcome (someone or something) quickly and without difficulty.
seal the doom of
To bring to nothing
lay in ruins
To bring to nothing
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
annihilatory
Causing annihilation.
(Archaic) Poisonous.
Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
Causing death or likely to cause death
Harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way (as for example deleterious effects, deleterious to health).
Causing destruction; damaging.
Ruined, ravaged
Unnecessary or unwarranted; unjustified:
Unfriendly; hostile:
(Slang) Ruined, destroyed, defeated, etc.
Having or showing ill will; malicious:
Morally injurious; corrupting; unwholesome
Bringing or tending to bring ruin; very destructive or harmful; disastrous
The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.
A sudden violent change in the earth's surface; a cataclysm.
(Mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of the original sequence.
Explosives, especially when designed or used as weapons.
Destruction is defined as the tearing down or dismantling or killing of something.
destructivity
A destroying or being destroyed; annihilation; abolition
The act of extirpating or uprooting.
Great destruction and devastation, as that resulting from hurricanes, wars, etc.
The spirits in hell or the powers of evil:
The process of cell destruction through the action of specific lysins
In the Christian religion, perdition is defined as a state of eternal punishment you experience after death if you were a sinner who did not repent to God.
The act of pulverizing.
The act of subverting or the condition of being subverted.
To suffer blight
(Intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
To cut off the head of; behead
To pull up by or as by the roots; uproot; eradicate
(Obs.) To starve to death
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(Sports) To withdraw (an entry) from a contest, specif. from a horse race
(Medicine) To empty.
To scuttle means to sink a ship by making holes in the hull, or to abandon a plan.
To add cream to.
(Slang, idiomatic, intransitive) (by extension) to accomplish or produce something in a grand, respectable, or successful manner; to "represent".
To bring to an end the effect or existence of; cancel out:
(Obsolete) Rebellious; refractory.
To pass, come, go, come into view, act, etc. swiftly, suddenly, or hastily
Waste is defined as to destroy, wear away or use up.
conserve (antonym)
To keep (a quantity) constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary changes.
perpetuate (antonym)
To make perpetual; cause to continue or be remembered; preserve from oblivion
preserve (antonym)
To keep up; carry on; maintain
spare (antonym)
To treat with mercy or leniency; refrain from killing, injuring, troubling, or distressing; save
restore (antonym)
To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
repair (antonym)
To renew; restore; revive
construct (antonym)
To form by assembling or combining parts; build.
To force into bankruptcy.
cross up
To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of
(Idiomatic) To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity.
put-the-kibosh-on
help (related)
(Intransitive) To provide assistance.
wiping-out (related)
wiped-out (related)
invade (related)
abandon (related)
be destroyed (related)
break to pieces
To bring to nothing
improve (antonym)
To make beneficial additions or changes:
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
Termination or extinction by disintegration or dispersion:
The actions or beliefs of an iconoclast
The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.
The act of invalidating, or the state of being invalidated.
Rescind is defined as to cancel or make something void.
devastative
To work upon insidiously and cause to deteriorate
To bring to nothing
To cause an acid or base to undergo neutralization.
To bring to nothing
Synonym Study
- To annihilate is to destroy so completely as to blot out of existence rights that cannot be annihilated
- Raze means to level to the ground, either destructively or by systematic wrecking with a salvaging of useful parts
- Demolish implies such destructive force as to completely smash to pieces and render useless the bombs demolished the factories, she demolished his argument
- Destroy implies a tearing down or bringing to an end by wrecking, ruining, killing, eradicating, etc. and is the term of broadest application here to destroy a city, one's influence, etc.
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