destroy · verb
Meanings and examples
To damage something so completely that it cannot be used or no longer exists.
The fire destroyed most of the old house.
Heavy rain can destroy crops in the fields.
They destroyed the old bridge before building a new one.
Water has destroyed all the photographs in this box.
Forms
- destroy base form
- destroys third-person singular present
- destroyed past tense; past participle
- destroying present participle