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Destroy

/dɪˈstrɔɪ/

To cause something to no longer exist by breaking or damaging it beyond repair.

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Count Dracula had to be destroyed before he reached his castle.

You don't fight cancer by destroying the body.

He destroys everything that is mine.

Derived from Old French destruire, and Latin destruere, de- meaning reverse, and struere meaning to build.

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