destroying
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Synonyms:
ruining, spoiling, wrecking, carnage, destruction Collocations, wreck Collocations, annihilating, annihilation, decimating, decimation, crushing, breaking, breakage, demolishing, demolition, ruination, terminating, termination Collocations, killing
destroy
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Sense: Verb: reduce to nothing
Synonyms:
ruin Collocations, demolish, shatter Collocations, wreck Collocations, devastate, obliterate, crush Collocations, level Collocations, damage Collocations, smash Collocations, break Collocations, annihilate, tear down, raze, defeat Collocations, knock sth to pieces, total Collocations, tear apart, cause the downfall of, break up, bring down, consume Collocations, dismantle, dissolve, put an end to, blot out, undo Collocations, ravage, lay waste to, annul, mutilate, deface, burn sth to the ground, efface, destruct, abolish, desolate, wrench apart, dilapidate, fell Collocations, bomb Collocations, split up, trample, maim, end Collocations, blast Collocations, pull down, pull sth to pieces, bring to ruin, make short work of, scorch, eradicate, make mincemeat of , seal the doom of, lay sth in ruins
Antonyms:
rebuild, construct Collocations, build Collocations, erect, fix Collocations, repair Collocations, mend Collocations, make Collocations, assemble Collocations, create Collocations, preserve Collocations, protect Collocations, restore Collocations, save Collocations
Sense: Verb: kill
Synonyms:
kill Collocations, murder Collocations, slay Collocations, slaughter Collocations, exterminate, bump off , wipe out , snuff out , do in , do away with , hit Collocations , waste Collocations , rub out , finish off , put sb to death, put down, liquidate, asphyxiate, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, stab to death, shoot dead, electrocute, massacre, hang Collocations, guillotine, execute Collocations, assassinate, crucify, stamp out, eradicate, decimate
Antonyms:
animate, raise Collocations, nurture Collocations, revive, resuscitate, resurrect, save Collocations, protect Collocations