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Destroy

🔄 Synonyms of "Destroy"

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
ruinnoun	To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
demolishverb	(literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Destroy"

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Word	Definition
ruinverb	To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
demolishverb	(literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
wreckverb	(transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
devastateverb	To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
destructive	Causing destruction; damaging.
ravageverb	(transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
breakdownnoun	(countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
destructionnoun	The act of destroying.
damaged	That has suffered damage.
wreakverb	(transitive) To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm.
damageverb	Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
razeverb	(transitive) To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
harmverb	Physical injury; hurt; damage.
killingnoun	The act of killing.
annihilateverb	To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
killverb	(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
annihilationnoun	The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
obliterateverb	(transitive) To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
quashverb	To defeat decisively, to suppress.
self-destructverb	(usually figuratively) To destroy oneself or itself.