destroy
destroy is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.2. To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume. I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation. Jer. xii.
- 2.3. To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill. If him by force he can destroy, or, worse, By some false guile pervert. Milton. See Demolish.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
- consume
- deface
- desolate
- devastate
- dismantle
- extinguish
- extirpate
- kill
- lay waste
- overthrow
- raze
- ruin
- slay
- subvert
- throw down
- to demolish
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abstain
- abstinence
- alone
- aside
- assassin
- away
- back
- bane
- cankerworm
- cast
- destroyer
- desuetude
- discard
- dismantle
- dismiss
- dispense
- disusage
- disuse
- done
- eject
- executioner
- for
- forbear
- forbearance
- give
- habit
- have
- heave
- iconoclast
- idoloclast
- keep
- killer
- lay
- leave
- let
- lie
- make
- napkin
- neglect
- nihilist
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is destroy.
- What is 2. To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume. I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation. Jer. xii called?
- What is 3. To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill. If him by force he can destroy, or, worse, By some false guile pervert. Milton. See Demolish called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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