Usually means: Causing complete or extensive damage.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word destroying:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. destroying: Merriam-Webster
  2. destroying: Collins English Dictionary
  3. destroying: Vocabulary.com
  4. Destroying, destroying: Wordnik
  5. destroying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. destroying: Wiktionary
  7. destroying: Dictionary.com
  8. destroying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Destroying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Destroying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. destroying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. destroying: FreeDictionary.org
  13. destroying: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Destroying: Dictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. destroying: Legal dictionary

(Note: See destroy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (destroy)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
verb:  (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
verb:  (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
verb:  (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To remove data.
verb:  (transitive, bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build up.
verb:  (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
verb:  (transitive, US, slang) To sing a song extremely poorly.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To eat food quickly, hungrily or completely.
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