destroy

Phrases
An user
He
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  could   destroy   you   quite   by accident .

Il pourrait vous détruire tout à fait par accident.

Signification (Anglais)

  1. (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
  2. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
  3. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
  4. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
  5. (informal, transitive) To utterly defeat; to crush.
  6. (transitive) To remove data.
  7. (slang, transitive) To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build up.
  8. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
  9. (US, slang, transitive) To sing a song extremely poorly.
  10. (slang, transitive) To eat food quickly, hungrily or completely.

Synonymes

extirpate

break to pieces

crush down

trample down

break into pieces

bring to naught

make a mess of

make change

cause to perish

destroy completely

bring to ruin

make desolate

scour away

tread down

attack verbally

be ruined

be shattered

break by striking

break in pieces

bring to an end

burn into

clear of

cut in pieces

cut to ribbons

dash to pieces

demolish dash

do away

eat away at

lay waste to

make a stroke

make sour

make ugly

make vanish

press together

smash to pieces

move violently

scatter about

put an end

fordo

cause to burn

cause to cease

make bad

be obliterated

turn over a board

demolish annihilate

frustate

mess about with

sabogate

over-power

render useless

tear asunder

make rotten

make soft

put in disorder

make addled

make in confusion

over-run

batter down

miscarry

overbear

Fréquence

B1
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/dɪˈstɹɔɪ/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

From Middle English destroyen, from Old French destruire, Vulgar Latin *destrugō, from Classical Latin dēstruō, from dē- (“un-, de-”) + struō (“I build”).

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