Destruct: alternatives and connections

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 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 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 act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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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 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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To rub along the surface of; to graze.

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

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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 unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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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 unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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