DESTROY

[dɪs`trɔɪ]

разрушать, рушить, сносить; ликвидировать; стирать с лица земли

ломать, разбивать на части; портить

истреблять, уничтожать; лишать жизни, убивать

уничтожать, искоренять, ликвидировать

противодействовать, нейтрализовать

отменять, делать недействительным; нуллифицировать

destroy: translation

1 damage sth so badly that it no longer exists

▪ completely, entirely, totally, utterly

▪ all but, almost, effectively, nearly, practically, virtually

▪

Their lives have been virtually destroyed by this tragedy.

▪ largely

▪ partially, partly

▪ eventually, ultimately

▪

Our greed may ultimately destroy the planet.

▪ systematically

▪

The rainforest is being systematically destroyed.

▪ single-handedly

▪

That guy just single-handedly destroyed everything we've worked for.

▪ easily

▪ for ever, permanently

▪ immediately, instantly

▪

The bomb hit, instantly destroying the building.

▪ quickly, rapidly

▪ slowly

▪

Depression and despair slowly destroyed his life.

▪ deliberately

▪ accidentally, inadvertently

▪ physically

▪

He physically destroyed the computer by smashing it to pieces.

▪ literally

▪

The earthquake literally destroyed their villages.

▪ by fire

▪

The building was destroyed by fire last year.

▪ can, could, etc.

▪

Drugs can destroy the lives of young people.

▪ threaten to

▪

This disease threatens to destroy many of our native trees.

▪ an attempt to destroy sth

▪

a new attempt to destroy enemy positions

▪ be capable of destroying sth

▪

These weapons are capable of destroying the entire planet.

▪ be intent on destroying sth

▪

She seemed intent on destroying everything they had built up together.

2 kill an animal

▪ humanely

▪ have to be destroyed

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The horse fell and had to be destroyed.

Destroy is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑blast, ↑bomb, ↑cyclone, ↑earthquake, ↑explosion, ↑fire, ↑hurricane, ↑landslide, ↑locust, ↑missile, ↑tornado, ↑typhoon, ↑vandal, ↑virus

Destroy is used with these nouns as the object: ↑aircraft, ↑army, ↑bacteria, ↑base, ↑bridge, ↑building, ↑camp, ↑capitalism, ↑cell, ↑chance, ↑civilization, ↑competition, ↑confidence, ↑country, ↑credibility, ↑crop, ↑defence, ↑dignity, ↑document, ↑dog, ↑earth, ↑economy, ↑effectiveness, ↑embryo, ↑empire, ↑enemy, ↑essence, ↑evidence, ↑evil, ↑fabric, ↑faith, ↑file, ↑flavour, ↑fleet, ↑forest, ↑foundation, ↑friendship, ↑germ, ↑habitat, ↑heritage, ↑home, ↑hope, ↑illusion, ↑industry, ↑integrity, ↑liberty, ↑livelihood, ↑mankind, ↑missile, ↑monster, ↑monument, ↑morale, ↑myth, ↑negative, ↑neighbourhood, ↑nest, ↑network, ↑ozone, ↑planet, ↑property, ↑record, ↑regime, ↑relationship, ↑reputation, ↑ship, ↑symmetry, ↑system, ↑tank, ↑target, ↑trust, ↑unity, ↑vegetation, ↑vestige, ↑wall, ↑world

destroy: translation

abolish, abuse, afflict, aggrieve, annihilate, annul, assault, atomize, attack, baffle, balk, barbarize, batter, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, befoul, bereave of life, best, bewitch, blast, blight, botch, brave, break down, break up, bring to ruin, brutalize, burn, butcher, cancel out, carry away, carry off, carry on, challenge, checkmate, chloroform, circumvent, condemn, confound, confront, confute, consume, contradict, contravene, corrupt, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cripple, cross, crucify, crush, curse, cut down, cut off, damage, damn, dash, deal destruction, decapitate, decimate, defeat, defile, defy, demolish, deny, deprave, depredate, deprive of life, desolate, despoil, devastate, devitalize, devour, disable, disadvantage, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish, dismantle, dispatch, dispose of, disprove, disrupt, disserve, dissolve, distress, do a mischief, do away with, do evil, do for, do ill, do in, do to death, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, drub, dynamite, elude, end, enfeeble, engorge, envenom, eradicate, execute, exhaust, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finish, finish off, fix, flummox, foil, frustrate, get into trouble, go on, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, hammer, harass, harm, havoc, hex, hide, hors de combat, hurt, immolate, impair, incinerate, infect, injure, interfere with, jinx, kill, knock the chocks, lambaste, lather, launch into eternity, lay in ruins, lay waste, lick, liquidate, loot, lynch, make away with, maltreat, mangle, mar, martyr, martyrize, maul, menace, mistreat, molest, mug, mutilate, negate, neutralize, nonplus, nullify, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrage, outrun, outsail, outshine, overthrow, overturn, perplex, persecute, pillage, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, pull down, pulverize, purge, put, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, quench, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, ravage, rave, raze, refute, remove from life, reverse, riot, roar, rub out, rubble, ruin, ruinate, sabotage, sack, sacrifice, savage, scathe, scotch, settle, shatter, shipwreck, shoot, skin, skin alive, slaughter, slay, smash, sow chaos, spike, spoil, starve, stonewall, stop, storm, stump, swallow up, taint, take life, take off, tear, tear around, tear down, terminate, terrorize, thrash, threaten, throw into disorder, thwart, torment, torture, trash, trim, triumph over, trounce, unbuild, undermine, undo, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unmake, upheave, upset, vandalize, vaporize, violate, waste, weaken, whip, wipe, wipe out, worst, wound, wrack, wreak havoc, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrong

1. разрушать; разбивать

2. разбивать, расстраивать

3. ломать, портить

4. уничтожать; истреблять

5. убивать