Synonym: devastate, exterminate, finish, kill, ruin, slay, spoil, wreck. Antonym: construct, establish. Similar words: destruction, modest, strong, stroke, clandestine, astronomer, restrict, restriction. Meaning: [dɪ'strɔɪ] v. 1. do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of 2. destroy completely; damage irreparably 3. defeat soundly 4. put to death.
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91. After the card has been used, ask for carbon copies and destroy them.
92. Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself. Joyce Meyer
93. Steven Paterson denies helping Bailey try to destroy evidence linking him to the crime and the trial is continuing.
94. The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
95. I will never again destroy every living creature as I have done.
96. This is crucial as the ice crystals formed when water freezes would destroy the egg tissues.
97. The area to be denuded is first waxed, after which the laser goes into the follicles to destroy them.
98. There were many cases of theft, misappropriation, and favouritism which tended to destroy confidence in officialdom in general.
99. She holds the adventurers at bay by holding the scroll over a candle flame and threatening to destroy it.
100. Through technology we have advanced to a point where we can destroy this planet and everything on it.
101. The tower did not last out the nineteenth century; the danger from erosion caused the owners to destroy it.
102. You can no longer, for the sake of building a road, destroy houses without providing alternative accommodation.
103. Had the makers of Junior Scientist included chemicals so deadly they might destroy a house?
104. If I do as you suggest and tell Billy about us, he will do his damnedest to destroy me in revenge.
105. It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. Chuck Palahniuk
106. Few things destroy trust more than telling a friend's secrets.
107. Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. Aesop
108. A stratagem I learnt early in my life was to hoard every emblem of success and destroy all evidence of failure.
109. All over the earth men grew so wicked that finally Zeus determined to destroy them.
110. Hermaphrodites are in a state of constant battle against rebellious organelle genes trying to destroy their male parts. Sentencedict.com
111. One of those elements is the story of an all-powerful race who tried to conquer and destroy Creation.
112. Read in studio An airman who helped destroy evidence after a twenty million pound arson attack has been fined fifteen hundred pounds.
113. And his political resurrection offers campaign salvation to Bob Dole, whose presidential candidacy Atwater helped to destroy in 1988.
114. This is one of the reasons we destroy the rain forests at our peril.
115. Others said it would destroy the moral fabric of the state.
116. But some boatmen fear the new regulations could destroy their livelihoods.
117. Why destroy this morn, by a past that is dead & gone and a future not yet born! RVM
118. The third works by making cancer cells susceptible to laser light which can be used to destroy them.
119. But as Ken Goodwin reports, his scheme to destroy the evidence didn't go according to plan.
120. They also tend to survive burial in conditions that destroy the rest of the plant.
More similar words: destruction, modest, strong, stroke, clandestine, astronomer, restrict, restriction, royal, design, desert, dessert, besides, despite, descend, designs, design for, designer, desperate, describe, troop, desperately, widespread, patron, patrol, description, control, trouble, courtroom, tropical.