destroy

Definitions


[dɪˈstrɔɪ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- end the existence of (something) by damaging or attacking it
(e.g: the room had been destroyed by fire)


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Origin:
Middle English: from Old French destruire, based on Latin destruere, from de- (expressing reversal) + struere ‘build’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries