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  Synonym Collection v1.1
Main Entry:  destroy
Part of Speech:  adjective
Synonyms:  annihilative, annihilatory, baneful, corrosive, deadly, deleterious, destroyed, destructive, devastated, devastating, devastative, fordone, gratuitous, inimical, kaput, malignant, noxious, pernicious, ruinous, subversive, wanton
  Synonym Collection v1.1
Main Entry:  destroy
Part of Speech:  noun
Synonyms:  annihilation, cataclysm, catastrophe, corrosion, decimation, demolition, deracination, destruction, destructivity, devastation, dissolution, extinction, extirpation, havoc, hell, holocaust, iconoclasm, immolation, invalidation, lysis, mayhem, perdition, pulverization, sabotage, subversion
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  destroy
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of.
Synonyms:  bankrupt, break down, cross up, demolish, finish, ruin, shatter, sink, smash, spoil, torpedo, undo, wash up, wrack, wreck
Idioms:  put the kibosh on
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  destroy
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To pull down or break up so that reconstruction is impossible.
Synonyms:  demolish, dismantle, dynamite, knock down, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, tear down, wreck
  Synonym Collection v1.1
Main Entry:  destroy
Part of Speech:  verb
Synonyms:  abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, blight, blow, break, consume, corrode, damage, decapitate, decimate, deface, defeat, demolish, depredate, deracinate, desolate, devastate, devour, dismantle, dissolve, dynamite, efface, end, eradicate, erase, erode, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, famish, finish, immolate, kill, level, liquidate, mutilate, neutralize, nuke, nullify, obliterate, overrun, overturn, quell, rase, ravage, raze, rescind, retract, ruin, rush, sabotage, sack, scratch, scupper, scuttle, slay, smash, smite, spoil, total, undo, vaporize, vitiate, void, waste, wreck
Antonyms:  conserve, perpetuate, preserve, spare
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  break
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To impair severely something such as the spirit, health, or effectiveness of.
Synonyms:  crush, overwhelm, ruin
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  kill
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To cause the death of.
Synonyms:  carry off, cut down, cut off, dispatch, finish, slay
Idioms:  put an end to, put to sleep
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  murder
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To take the life of (a person or persons) unlawfully.
Synonyms:  finish, kill, liquidate, slay

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Cite This Source   Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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