Usually means: Eliminates, ruins, or damages completely.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. destroys: Merriam-Webster
  2. destroys: Collins English Dictionary
  3. destroys: Vocabulary.com
  4. Destroys, destroys: Wordnik
  5. destroys: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. destroys: Wiktionary
  7. destroys: Dictionary.com
  8. destroys: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. destroys: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. destroys: 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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