destroy

Meaning of destroy

verb
  1. To damage beyond use or repair.
    Hooligans destroy unprovoked.
  2. To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
    Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate.
  3. To put down or euthanize.
    Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
  4. To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
    Her divorce destroyed her; she had a nervous breakdown and was severely depressed for more than a year.
  5. To defeat soundly.
  6. To remove data.
    The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.
  7. To sing a song poorly.
  8. (antiphrasis) To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up.
    This exercise is going to destroy all parts of your shoulders.
  9. To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
    She got destroyed by her lover on the carpet.

Information about destroy

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of destroy is: destroys.
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Hyphenation of destroy

de-stroy

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • destroy is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

destroy synonyms

Meaning destruct:

destruct

Meaning ruin:

ruin

Meaning demolish:

demolish

Meaning :

annihilate, break, kill, waste

destroy antonyms

Meaning :

build, construct, create, make, raise, repair

Translation of destroy

Anagrams of destroy

roysted, stroyed

Words that rhyme with destroy

Troy, troy, Peatroy, octroy, predestroy, stroy

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