Definitions for destroy

destroy de·stroy

Spelling: [dih-stroi]
IPA: /dɪˈstrɔɪ/

Destroy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 225 anagrams from letters in destroy (deorsty).

Definitions for destroy

verb (used with object)

  1. to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
  2. to put an end to; extinguish.
  3. to kill; slay.
  4. to render ineffective or useless; nullify; neutralize; invalidate.
  5. to defeat completely.

verb (used without object)

  1. to engage in destruction.

Origin of destroy

1175-1225; Middle English destroyen Old French destruire Vulgar Latin dēstrūgere (unattested), for Latin dēstruere (dē- de- + struere “to pick up, build”)

Examples for destroy

Whether or not beta-version wearables are your thing, some technology is just impossible to ignore (or destroy).

It is a crime which, if persisted in, will destroy the Government itself.

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

Some of us are only fit to destroy what is yet worse than ourselves.

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

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

They want their own poor way, and destroy the work of their hands by the sound of their tongues.

Nothing but the hand of man could destroy what he was destroying; but his hand shrank not, and it was done.

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

To treat a child wholly as an adult would be to mock and destroy it.

Word Value for destroy
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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