Destroy: alternatives and connections

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.

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To destroy the form and qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.

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Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.

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To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.

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To destroy.

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To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

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To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.

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To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a buildin…

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To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

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To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.

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To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

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To drive out or away; to expel.

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To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love,…

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To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumo…

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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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Jet, the mineral.

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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.

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A kiln.

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A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

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To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.

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To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulve…

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Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.

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To rub along the surface of; to graze.

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Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages…

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A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.

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A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.

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The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the w…

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To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

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Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

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To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.

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To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.

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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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A thin, flying cloud; a rack.

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See 2d & 3d Wreak.

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The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, t…

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The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, t…

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One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.

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One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.

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Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.

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Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.

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The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

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The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

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Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- ofte…

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Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- ofte…

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To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.

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To destroy.

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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