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destroy

If you destroy something, you break it or make it not exist anymore. The house was destroyed by the bomb. If you destroy someone you hurt them badly, especially their feelings, or cause them much trouble. Mary was destroyed by her failiure to get into college. The other kids destroyed him with cruel lies.

destroy

do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of The fire destroyed the house (= ruin) destroy completely; damage irreparably You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank! The tears ruined her make-up (= demolish) defeat soundly The home team demolished the visitors (= put down) put (an animal) to death The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid the sick cat had to be put down

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Simple sentences

Destroy your enemies: make them your friends.
Alcohol and hard drugs destroy people's lives.
Denying she was an anarchist, Katja maintained she wished only to make changes in our government, not to destroy it.
Destroy this temple.
The soldiers' mission was to destroy the bridge.
You always destroy everything.
If you want to be free, destroy your television set.
We must destroy the evidence.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
I know what you love and I'll do everything I can in order to destroy it.
Stop watching TV. It will destroy your brain.
The substance can also destroy plants.
God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.
The Germans planned to destroy the Royal Air Force and invade Britain.
I watched them destroy the old building.
Earthquakes destroy buildings.
He wanted to destroy it.
I must destroy you.
I eat and destroy.
We'll destroy the old farms.

Movie subtitles

The first cases appeared in early summer. 2 00:00:55,740 -- 00:00:58,410 For months the virus tried to destroy the population.
The plan to destroy Britannia.
Do you think you can destroy it with just that power?
It has a talisman pattern carved which can destroy souls.
You'll destroy my career?
You're gonna destroy him.
You and Cal and your goddamn parents and everyone else at that fucking place are gonna destroy him.
They had come to collect the young maiden who had loved an evildoer. and had given her life to destroy him.
The local constabulary being powerless, I've been ordered to attack their lair and destroy them this very night without mercy.
I prefer to remain. and protect those whom you would destroy.
I intend to stay and protect those you seek to destroy.
First to destroy it, then re-create it.
You have created a monster and it will destroy you.
I made him with these hands, and with these hands I will destroy him.
I'll destroy your wretched descendants and leave you to the vultures.
We'll build it instead of destroy it.
Either their herds destroy it, or they badly farm it.
No. You're gonna destroy him.
It would appear his intention is to use the flying debris field in an attempt to destroy my terminal.
The latter included rogues, rebellious ones who attempted to destroy us.
If you go that route, it will destroy us, too.
Don't fight me on this. Let's you and I destroy the world together.
DESTROY HIM!
I destroy everything dangerous to Russia.
And I think that John Mayer is very likely to destroy evidence.
IT WOULD DESTROY EVERYTHING, ROSS.
Why do you wish to destroy me?
And this time, we'll destroy it, not the gods.
It would be a pity to destroy such a lovely flower.
Winter storms can destroy the work of a whole year.
Destroy this.
You're trying to destroy my love because they wish it.
And you wish me to speak and destroy this happiness?
Besides, if I were, I'd destroy the very thing Van loves in me.
It's enough to destroy one's faith, isn't it?
He was already thinking about it on the train. -Shh! Do you think we only came here to destroy your dream?

News and current affairs

They can destroy but not create.
Any pathological group of extremists could destroy New Delhi, Tokyo, Paris, or any city they chose.
It is too painful to believe that humanity would destroy millions of other species - and jeopardize our own future - in a fit of absent-mindedness.
NATO troops should be given the green light to help the Afghan army fight opium - destroy the heroin labs, disband the opium bazaars, attack the opium convoys, and bring the big traders to justice.
As an anti-status quo power, Iran is not pursuing nuclear capabilities in order to destroy Israel, but to gain prestige and influence in a hostile environment and as a shield for its challenge to the regional order.
Like Samson in the temple of Gaza, he wishes to destroy himself in a public act of violence, taking as many people as possible with him.
Israel made a similar mistake in thinking that it could use its enormous margin of conventional military power to destroy Hezbollah in last summer's Lebanon War.
The five-day delay in allowing UN chemical-weapons experts to verify the attack gave Assad's government ample time to conceal incriminating evidence, allow it to degrade, or destroy it with further shelling.
Looking back at his career, Arafat never really veered from the belief that his life's mission was to destroy Israel by any means necessary and replace it with a Palestinian Arab state.
Israel's military has failed to destroy Palestinian terrorism through hard-line reprisals; Palestinian extremists have not scared Israeli hard-liners into concessions.
Unfortunately, the Israelis can show the Arabs that they cannot destroy Israel only by enduring the violent war of attrition that the Arabs are pursuing.
But, as the ancient Greeks taught, the gods destroy by granting us our wishes or fulfilling them too completely.
The larger party has limited ability to disarm or destroy the enemy, occupy territory, or use counterforce strategies effectively.
Second, the UN ought to make good on its threat and impose sanctions against the Sudanese government unless it stops using its aircraft to destroy villages and unless it stops supporting the jangaweed.
A strike designed to destroy Assad's air force and prevent him from dropping bombs full of nails on his people would concentrate his mind on a diplomatic solution.
Waiting until 2013 to implement these restructurings, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposes, will destroy confidence, as it implies a much larger haircut on residual private claims on sovereign borrowers.
Our aim should be to invent financial mechanisms for segmenting and spreading risk, so that one bad case no longer has the potential to destroy the whole system.
So is the fact that state officials threatened Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger with criminal charges and forced Guardian employees to destroy computer equipment at the newspaper's offices.
Now China may become the target of a full-fledged trade war that could destroy - or perhaps rescue - the chances of bringing rich and poor nations together to fight global warming.
Developing nations' allies, meanwhile, are warning that the sanctions plan could destroy the chances of a post-Kyoto treaty.

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