destroy
verb
[ dɪˈstrɔɪ ]
• end the existence of (something) by damaging or attacking it.
• "the room had been destroyed by fire"
Similar:
demolish,
knock down,
pull down,
tear down,
level,
raze (to the ground),
fell,
dismantle,
break up,
wreck,
ruin,
smash,
shatter,
crash,
blast,
blow up,
blow to bits/pieces,
dynamite,
explode,
bomb,
torpedo,
spoil,
disfigure,
blight,
mar,
blemish,
impair,
flaw,
deface,
scar,
injure,
harm,
devastate,
damage,
lay waste,
ravage,
wreak havoc on,
waste,
disfeature,
disrupt,
undo,
upset,
play havoc with,
make a mess of,
put an end to,
end,
bring to an end,
put a stop to,
terminate,
prevent,
frustrate,
crush,
quell,
quash,
dash,
scotch,
vitiate,
sabotage,
upset someone's apple cart,
cook someone's goose,
mess up,
muck up,
screw up,
louse up,
foul up,
make a hash of,
do in,
put paid to,
put the lid on,
put the kibosh on,
do for,
scupper,
dish,
stymie,
queer,
nix,
banjax,
blow a hole in,
muller,
euchre,
cruel,
bring to naught,
fuck up,
bugger up,
balls up,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French destruire, based on Latin destruere, from de- (expressing reversal) + struere ‘build’.
