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destroy
Verb
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If you destroy something, you break it or make it not exist anymore.
The house was destroyed by the bomb.
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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.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
data
Noun
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Data is information, such as facts, numbers, photographs, etc.
A study using experimental data from ten schools found no difference between methods.