destroy
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
destroy/dɪˈstrɔɪ/
▶verb
- 1 put an end to the existence of (something) by damaging or attacking it.
■ ruin emotionally or spiritually.
- 2 kill (an animal) by humane means.
– origin ME: from OFr. destruire, based on L. destruct-, destruere, from de- (expressing reversal) + struere ‘build’.
'destroy' also found in these Oxford entries:
abolish
- alienate
- angary
- annihilate
- anthelmintic
- avermectin
- blacken
- blight
- bulldoze
- consume
- corrode
- corrupt
- cryosurgery
- cumber
- dash
- debauch
- decimate
- deep-six
- delete
- destruction
- devastate
- dish
- disinfect
- dismantle
- disrupt
- eat
- egg
- eighty-six
- eradicate
- erode
- ethidium bromide
- exterminate
- extirpate
- fry
- gut
- herbicide
- hunter-killer
- incinerate
- ivermectin
- knock
- lose
- mine
- muller
- neutralize
- nip
- nuke
- obliterate
- overwrite
- paid
