destroy

destroy
v
1. demolish, wipe out, pulverize, wreck, Sl. total, knock to pieces; raze, gut, fell, prostrate, level; pull down, tear down, take down, bring down, break down, throw down, cast down, beat down, knock down; shatter, crash, smash, batter, break; fracture, splinter, tear, crack, split, rend, tear apart, wrench apart; explode, burst, fulminate, implode; blast, blow up, bomb; mutilate, mangle, maim, make mincemeat of; mar, damage, spoil, mark, spot, stain; disfigure, scar, deface, blemish.
2. devastate, desolate, lay waste; ravage, work havoc upon, ruin, Dial. ruinate, bring to ruin, bring to naught, lay in ruins; despoil, rob, plunder, gut, pillage, ransack; vandalize, waste, Sl. trash.
3. quash, crush, subdue, quell, stifle, suppress, squelch, vanquish, squash; cut short, shoot down, Inf. cook one's goose, Inf. put the kibosh on, nip, nip in the bud; terminate, check, put an end to, dissolve, stop; overthrow, overwhelm, overturn, overcome; subvert, topple, cause the downfall of, upset, defeat, conquer; damn, seal the doom of, curse; annihilate, discreate, exterminate, extirpate.
4. erase, efface, eradicate, expunge, obliterate; blot out, sponge out, wipe out, rub out, cancel, strike out; scratch out, blue-pencil, delete, Print. dele, x out, cross out, mark off.
5. undo, unmake, unbuild, dismantle, disassemble, take apart.
6. kill, kill off, slay, slaughter, end, put an end to, make an end of, bring an end to; murder, sacrifice, dispose of, finish, finish off, Sl. do in, Sl. zap; assassinate, get rid of, mow down, do away with, put out of the way, Inf. wipe out, remove, massacre, liquidate, decimate; extinguish, quench, snuff out, put out, stamp out, smother, stifle, choke; devour, swallow up, consume, eat away; drown, strangle, set fire to, shipwreck, submerge, shoot, garrote, hang, knife, decapitate.
7. annul, nullify, disannul, declare null and void, render null and void, void, avoid; quash, invalidate, vitiate, vacate, disenact, disestablish; cancel, discharge; supersede, set aside; repeal, revoke, rescind, reverse, abrogate, abolish; suspend, Law. nol-pros, stop, discontinue, break off, countermand, counter-order, override, overrule; veto, negate.
8. disprove, refute, confute, rebut; dispute, deny, oppose, controvert, counter; contradict, belie, negate; overturn, overthrow, subvert; expose, reveal, unmask; discredit, disparage, demean, debase.
9. weaken, undermine, enfeeble, debilitate; enervate, exhaust, sap, devitalize; disable, cripple, paralyze.
10. neutralize, frustrate; counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, overbalance, outweigh.

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