Usually means: Eliminate the existence or structure.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word destroy:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. destroy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. destroy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. destroy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. destroy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. destroy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Destroy, destroy: Wordnik
  7. destroy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. destroy: Wiktionary
  9. destroy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. destroy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. destroy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Destroy, destroy: Dictionary.com
  13. destroy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. destroy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Destroy (album), Destroy (band), Destroy, Destroy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Destroy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. destroy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. destroy: Rhymezone
  19. destroy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. destroy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. destroy: Free Dictionary
  22. destroy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. destroy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. destroy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. destroy: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. destroy: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. destroy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) 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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