Thesaurus:destroy
English edit
Verb edit
Sense: to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate edit
Synonyms edit
- destroy
- annihilate
- aerosolize
- atomize
- benothing (obsolete, rare)
- bewreck
- blot out
- blotto
- decompose
- demolish
- devastate
- diffuse [⇒ thesaurus]
- disintegrate
- disperse [⇒ thesaurus]
- dissolve
- eliminate
- eradicate
- erase
- exterminate
- extinguish
- extirpate
- fuck [⇒ thesaurus] (vulgar)
- jazz
- lay waste
- level
- liquidate
- nuke
- obliterate
- pull down
- raze
- ravage
- remove [⇒ thesaurus]
- ruin
- total [⇒ thesaurus]
- unexist [⇒ thesaurus]
- uproot
- waste
- wipe out
- wipe off
- wreck
Antonyms edit
Further reading edit
- “162. destruction” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “destroy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.