destroy

Synonyms

annihilate, cream, decimate, demolish, desolate, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, raze, rub out, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, total, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreck;

Antonyms

build, construct, erect, put up, raise, rear, set up;

Near Antonyms

doctor, fix, mend, patch, recondition, repair, revamp;

create, invent;

assemble, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, make, manufacture, mold, produce, shape;

bring about, constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize;

conserve, preserve, protect, save;

rebuild, reconstruct, remodel, renovate, restore;

Related Words

beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, drub, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), rout, scotch, skunk, subdue, surmount, thrash, trim, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip, win (against);

blast, blow up, break, cripple, damage, deface, deteriorate, disfigure, disintegrate, dissolve, dynamite, harm, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiate;

erode, scour, sweep (away), wash out, wear (away);

dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, gut, take down, unbuild, undo, unmake;

blot out, efface, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out), snuff (out), stamp (out), wipe out;

despoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, trample, trash, vandalize;