destroy
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- verb
Synonyms for destroy
ruin
devastate
slaughter
annihilate
Synonyms
- annihilate
- wipe out
- obliterate
- erase
- eradicate
- extinguish
- liquidate
- root out
- exterminate
- nullify
- extirpate
- wipe from the face of the earth
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
Synonyms for destroy
to cause the complete ruin or wreckage of
to pull down or break up so that reconstruction is impossible
to take the life of (a person or persons) unlawfully
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Synonyms for destroy
do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
Synonyms
Related Words
- kill
- do away with
- eliminate
- get rid of
- extinguish
- unmake
- undo
- self-destroy
- self-destruct
- destruct
- end
- fracture
- sweep away
- wipe out
- interdict
- demolish
- pulverise
- pulverize
- break apart
- disassemble
- take apart
- dismantle
- break up
- pull down
- rase
- raze
- tear down
- level
- take down
- extirpate
- root out
- uproot
- eradicate
- exterminate
- dilapidate
- demyelinate
destroy completely
defeat soundly
Synonyms
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