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{
"term": "destroy",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "destroy",
"heSheIt": "destroys"
},
"pastSimple": "destroyed",
"pastParticiple": "destroyed",
"ingForm": "destroying"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to damage something so badly that it no longer exists, works, etc.",
"sensetop": "destroy something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The building was **completely destroyed** by fire."
},
{
"text": "The earthquake damaged or destroyed countless homes."
},
{
"text": "Some of the habitat has already been totally destroyed."
},
{
"text": "They've destroyed all the evidence."
},
{
"text": "Drugs can destroy the health and lives of young people."
},
{
"text": "He physically destroyed the computer by smashing it to pieces."
},
{
"text": "Our greed may ultimately destroy the planet."
},
{
"text": "She seemed intent on destroying everything they had built up together."
},
{
"text": "That guy just single-handedly destroyed everything we've worked for."
},
{
"text": "The bomb hit, instantly destroying the building."
},
{
"text": "The earthquake literally destroyed their villages."
},
{
"text": "The rainforest is being systematically destroyed."
},
{
"text": "These weapons are capable of destroying the entire planet."
},
{
"text": "This disease threatens to destroy many of our native trees."
},
{
"text": "a new attempt to destroy enemy positions"
},
{
"text": "The brigade's mission was to destroy the enemy."
},
{
"text": "Heat gradually destroys vitamin C."
},
{
"text": "You have destroyed my hopes of happiness."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "totally"],
"verb + destroy": ["can", "could", "etc."],
"phrases": [
"an attempt to destroy something",
"be capable of destroying something",
"be intent on destroying something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to take all the value and pleasure from somebody's life; to ruin (= completely damage) somebody's life or reputation",
"sensetop": "destroy somebody/something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Failure was slowly destroying him."
},
{
"text": "She threatened to destroy my reputation."
},
{
"text": "He wanted revenge on the man who had destroyed his life."
},
{
"text": "Their lives have been virtually destroyed by this tragedy."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to kill an animal deliberately, usually because it is sick or not wanted",
"sensetop": "destroy something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The injured horse had to be destroyed."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["humanely"],
"phrases": ["have to be destroyed"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɔɪ/",
"audio": "de/destroy/destroy__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɔɪz/",
"audio": "de/destroy/destroys__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɔɪd/",
"audio": "de/destroy/destroyed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɔɪɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/destroy/destroying__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɔɪ/",
"audio": "de/destroy/destroy__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɔɪz/",
"audio": "de/destroy/destroys__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɔɪd/",
"audio": "de/destroy/destroyed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɔɪɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/destroy/destroying__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French destruire, based on Latin destruere, from de- (expressing reversal) + struere ‘build’."
}