Destroys Synonyms and Antonyms

To impair severely something such as the spirit, health, or effectiveness of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ruins
  2. overwhelms
  3. crushes
  4. breaks
Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slays
  2. kills
  3. wastes
  4. destructs
  5. ruins
  6. zaps
  7. slaughters
  8. finishes
  9. dispatches
  10. murders
Antonyms:
  1. constructs
  2. improves
  3. creates
  4. builds
  5. repairs
  6. restores
  7. spares
  8. preserves
  9. conserves
To take the life of (a person or persons) unlawfully
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. zaps
  2. wastes
  3. off
  4. slays
  5. murders
  6. liquidates
  7. kills
  8. finishes
To pull down or break up so that reconstruction is impossible
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. destructs
  2. wrecks
  3. razes
  4. pulverizes
  5. levels
  6. dismantles
  7. demolishes

Destroys Sentence Examples

  • It destroys you over the course of a very, very long time!

  • Liming tends to produce earlier crops and destroys the fungus which causes finger-and-toe or club-root among turnips and cabbages.

  • In like manner the evil which one does in the interval of a day prevents the germs of virtues which began to spring up again from developing themselves and destroys them.

  • This prevents infection from outside and also destroys any spores or fungus mycelium that may have been packed away along with the bulbs.

  • Again, the assertion that the church is infallible upon some questions, not belonging to the area of revelation (properly so-called in Roman Catholic theology), destroys the identification of " dogmas " with " infallible certainties " which we noted both in the Protestant schoolmen and in Chrismann.

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