destroy

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

ruin

demolish

annihilate

kill

🔪🩸👤

break

damage

wreck

exterminate

spoil

devastate

crush

eradicate

smash

waste

remove

eliminate

ravage

extirpate

quash

wipe out

injure

defeat

pull down

obliterate

slay

shatter

abolish

dash

💨

overthrow

subdue

mar

uproot

extinguish

erase

consume

dispel

undo

lay waste

destruct

raze

tear down

blot out

murder

get rid of

violate

hurt

collapse

do away with

tear

trash

Translations

détruire

zerstören

distruggere

destruir

destruir

vernichten

vernietigen

démolir

destruir

vernielen

destrozar

verwoesten

niederreißen

bozmak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈstɹɔɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: destroyen

In summary

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

Sentences

He could destroy you quite by accident .