Synonyms of the word destroy


DESTROYDEFEAT - DEMOLISH - DESTRUCT - KILL - OVERCOME - RUIN - UNDO - UNMAKE

destroy

  • v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
  • v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
  • v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
  • v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
  • v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
  • v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

defeat

  • v. (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
  • v. (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
  • v. (transitive) To nullify.
  • n. The act of defeating or being defeated.

demolish

  • v. To destroy; to destruct.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To utterly defeat (as in a theory, belief or opponent).

destruct

  • v. (transitive) To intentionally cause the destruction of.
  • v. (intransitive) To self-destruct.

kill

  • v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
  • v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
  • v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
  • v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
  • v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
  • v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
  • v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
  • v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
  • n. The act of killing.
  • n. Specifically, the death blow.
  • n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
  • n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
  • n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
  • n. A kiln.

overcome

  • v. (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To win (a battle).
  • v. (intransitive) To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
  • v. (transitive, usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
  • v. To come or pass over; to spread over.
  • v. To overflow; to surcharge.

ruin

  • n. (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a…
  • n. (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
  • n. (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
  • n. (obsolete) A fall or tumble.
  • n. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
  • v. (transitive) to cause the fiscal ruin of.
  • v. To destroy or make something no longer usable.
  • v. To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
  • v. To upset or mess up the plans or progress of, or to put into disarray; to spoil.

undo

  • v. To reverse the effects of an action.
  • v. To unfasten.
  • v. (figuratively) to be heading for or to cause a downfall.
  • n. (computing) An operation that reverses a previous action.
  • adj. Misspelling of undue.

unmake

  • v. (transitive) To destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature.

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