Destroying Synonyms and Antonyms

To impair severely something such as the spirit, health, or effectiveness of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ruining
  2. overwhelming
  3. crushing
  4. breaking
To take the life of (a person or persons) unlawfully
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. zapping
  2. wasting
  3. off
  4. slaying
  5. murdering
  6. liquidating
  7. killing
  8. finishing
Destroy completely; damage irreparably
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. totalling
  2. wrecking
  3. undoing
  4. nullifying
  5. ravaging
  6. ruining
  7. razing
  8. smashing
  9. sabotaging
  10. erasing
  11. neutralizing
  12. ending
  13. vitiating
  14. mutilating
  15. sacking
  16. demolishing
  17. spoiling
  18. dismantling
  19. defacing
  20. finishing
  21. damaging
  22. annulling
  23. overturning
  24. scuttling
  25. exterminating
  26. levelling
  27. quelling
  28. impairing
  29. wasting
  30. voiding
  31. destructing
  32. dissolving
  33. vaporizing
  34. crushing
  35. creaming
  36. liquidating
  37. dispelling
  38. consuming
  39. scorching
  40. smiting
  41. extirpating
  42. dissipating
  43. slaying
  44. stopping
  45. wracking
  46. concluding
  47. scratching
  48. terminating
  49. devastating
  50. repealing
  51. rushing
  52. eradicating
  53. blasting
  54. retracting
  55. counteracting
  56. rescinding
  57. marring
  58. trampling
  59. torpedoing
  60. overrunning
  61. annihilating
  62. subverting
  63. desolating
  64. despoiling
  65. bombing
  66. extinguishing
  67. upsetting
  68. marauding
  69. killing
  70. abolishing
  71. ravishing
  72. obliterating
  73. effacing
  74. expunging
  75. defeating
  76. eroding
  77. sinking
  78. squelching
  79. suppressing
  80. quashing
  81. devouring
  82. butchering
  83. overthrowing
  84. decimating
  85. decapitating
  86. pillaging
  87. ransacking
  88. plundering
  89. corroding
  90. breaking
  91. blowing
  92. crashing
  93. blighting
  94. bankrupting
Antonyms:
  1. constructing
  2. establishing
  3. building
To pull down or break up so that reconstruction is impossible
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. destructing
  2. wrecking
  3. razing
  4. pulverizing
  5. levelling
  6. dismantling
  7. demolishing

Words Related to Destroying

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Destroying Sentence Examples

  • He was serious about destroying the mortal world.

  • There is no other way to keep the Other from destroying everything.

  • The battle of Tarutino obviously did not attain the aim Toll had in view--to lead the troops into action in the order prescribed by the dispositions; nor that which Count Orlov-Denisov may have had in view-- to take Murat prisoner; nor the result of immediately destroying the whole corps, which Bennigsen and others may have had in view; nor the aim of the officer who wished to go into action to distinguish himself; nor that of the Cossack who wanted more booty than he got, and so on.

  • If the Cossacks did not capture Napoleon then, what saved him was the very thing that was destroying the French army, the booty on which the Cossacks fell.

  • Because you're single-handedly destroying the universe.

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