destruir

Significado (Inglês)

1. (transitive) to ruin, devastate (proceed with the destruction of, cause the destruction of)
2. (transitive) to undo
3. (transitive) to break down
4. (transitive) to annihilate, exterminate
5. (transitive) to extinguish (make disappear)
6. (figuratively,transitive) to upset, disturb
7. (intransitive) to crush (reduce to nothing)

Hifenizado como

des‧tru‧ir

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/des.tɾuˈi(ʁ)/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese destruir, destroir, from Latin dēstruere (“to destroy”) (probably an early borrowing), from dē + struō (“to put together”).