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(v)
To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
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(literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
(transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
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.
(adj)
Causing destruction; damaging.
(transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
(n)
(countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
The act of destroying.
That has suffered damage.
(transitive) To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm.
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
(transitive) To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
Physical injury; hurt; damage.
The act of killing.
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
(transitive) To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
To defeat decisively, to suppress.
(usually figuratively) To destroy oneself or itself.
(transitive) To kill or otherwise permanently eliminate all of (a population of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.
(transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
(transitive) To make something unstable.
(ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
(transitive) To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
(transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
(transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force; to usurp.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
(US) To discard.
(transitive) (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
(transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
(transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
(transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
The process of demolishing or destroying buildings or other structures.
(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
(transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
(transitive) To remove (markings or information).
(transitive) To throw away, to reject.
(transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.
(transitive) To delete.
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
(transitive) To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
(transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
(transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.
(transitive) To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.
(transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
(transitive) To violate or break.
Non-Oxford British English standard form of neutralize. [(transitive) To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.]
(intransitive, with of) To eliminate or to get rid of something.
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
(transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.
The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
To make of no use or value; to cancel out.
(intransitive) To form cracks.
(transitive) To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
(US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
(countable) A disposing of or getting rid of something.
(transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
(colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
(transitive) (also reflexive) Followed by of: to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance.
To reverse the effects of an action.
(intransitive) To produce an air current.
(intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.
(transitive, slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
A jerk or asshole; a mean or rude person; someone seen as being arrogant, snobby or obnoxious.
(transitive) To spread (something) over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
(heading, physical) To strike.
To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
To wear away by abrasion, corrosion, or chemical reaction.
(transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
Nothing; zero.
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
(transitive) To compromise, damage, soil, or sully.
(transitive) To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something):
(transitive) To set off an event or action; to bring about; to produce.
To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
(transitive) To coat with wax or a similar material.
In a state of ruin; dilapidated.
(transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
(loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
(transitive) (religion) To offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity.
(transitive) To cause to come off the tracks.
(intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
American, Canadian, and Oxford British English standard spelling of vandalise.
(transitive) (figurative) To impede the development or growth of (an aspect of life); to damage, to ruin, to spoil.
(transitive, figurative) To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a powerful attack.