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destroying

/dih-stroi/US // dɪˈstrɔɪ //UK // (dɪˈstrɔɪ) //

毁坏,毁灭,摧毁,毁掉

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to reduce to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
    • : to put an end to; extinguish.
    • : to kill; slay.
    • : to render ineffective or useless; nullify; neutralize; invalidate.
    • : to defeat completely.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to engage in destruction.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The nova does not destroy the star, unlike a supernova, which marks a star’s death.

  • In addition to leveling forests for crops, the Spanish plantation system also began to destroy biodiversity with imported cattle and replace mountains with mines.

  • The eventual goal is to be able to 3D print bones directly into the cavity of a patient, for scenarios in which a certain portion of bone has been removed or destroyed.

  • He wants them destroyed lest some accident or malicious act unleash smallpox on the world again.

  • It’s marketing’s mass conservation, with nothing created and nothing destroyed.

  • But at the heart of this “Truther” conspiracy theory is the idea that “someone” wants to destroy Bill Cosby.

  • “The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program,” the Times reported.

  • Would he have been careful enough to destroy the odd pieces of jute you've left so messily about?

  • Anything less will mean than we are only slightly better as a nation than those who want to destroy us.

  • Instead we must show that America “is different, stronger, and better than those who would destroy us.”

  • O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.

  • The cheerful hours of easy labor vary but do not destroy the pursuit of pleasure and of recreation.

  • They destroy ants and spiders and other creeping things, so that Alila's mother never kills them nor drives them away.

  • Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.

  • Yet the Clarion opposes sweating and tyranny and hypocrisy, and does its best to defeat and to destroy them.