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to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of<they practically destroyed the safe in order to get at the money inside><their poor scores on the final exam destroyed any chance they might have had to pass the course>Synonymsannihilate, decimate, demolish, desolate, devastate, do in, extinguish, pulverize, raze, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, waste, wreckRelated Wordsgut; beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, lick, master, overbear, overcome, prevail (over), scotch, subdue, surmount, thrash, triumph (over), win (against); blow up, break, damage, deface, disintegrate, dynamite, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiate; erode, scour, wash out, wear (away); dismantle, undo, unmake; blot out, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, obliterate, remove, rub out, stamp (out), wipe out; despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, vandalize; assassinate, butcher, cut down, dispatch, execute, kill, massacre, murder, slaughter, slay, zapNear Antonymscreate, invent; fabricate, fashion, forge, form, make, manufacture, shape; bring about, establish, found, institute, organize; conserve, preserve, protect, save; rebuild, reconstruct, remodel, renovate, restoreAntonymsbuild, construct, erect, put up, raise
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to bring destruction to (something) through violent action<wildfires destroyed thousands of acres in forests across the state>— see ravage
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to deprive of life<the veterinarian was forced to destroy the injured horse>— see kill 1
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