Definition of "destroy"

destroy

/dɪˈstɹɔɪ/

verb
third-person singular simple present destroys, present participle destroying, simple past and past participle destroyed
1. (transitive, intransitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
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  Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Destroy this temple, and in three dayes I will raise it vp.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], John 2:19
2. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
3. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
4. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
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  Other girls in the foster home are eager to destroy her and get her kicked out of the place. It's a tough situation.
  2005, Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide
5. (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush.
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  Growing up, [Kevin] Durant told me, he was a sore loser. That all changed one day when he was 11, after he got destroyed by his father in a game of one on one in the driveway.
  2012 November 11, Sam Anderson, “The Oklahoma City Thunder’s Fairy-Tale Rise”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, archived from the original on 2023-04-10
6. (transitive, computing) To remove data.
7. (transitive, bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build up.
8. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
9. (transitive, US, slang) To sing a song extremely poorly.
  Quotations
  JAMES CARTER: The man's destroying a classic!
  2001, Jeff Nathanson, Rush Hour 2‎, New Line Cinema

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