definition of the word destroy

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

  Hyphenation: de‧stroy

to destroy (third-person singular simple present destroys, present participle destroying, simple past and past participle destroyed) (transitive)

1. To damage beyond use or repair.

   The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.

2. To put down or euthanize.

   Destroy a rabid dog.

3. (colloquial) To defeat soundly.
4. (computing) To remove data.

   The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.

• annihilate
• demolish

• repair
• restore
• make

• destroyer

• destruct
• destruction

Definition from Wiktionary Content avaible with GNU Free Documentation License

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