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单词 destroy
释义
destroy
verb[T]
uk
/dɪˈstrɔɪ/us
/dɪˈstrɔɪ/
B1
todamagesomething sobadlythat it cannot be used:
毁坏，摧毁，毁灭
Most of theoldpartof thecitywas destroyed bybombsduring thewar.该城的大部分老城区都在战争中被炸毁了。
Theaccidentseemedto havecompletely/totallydestroyed hisconfidence.这场事故似乎已彻底击垮了他的信心。
tokillananimalbecause it isill, inpain, ordangerous
宰杀，灭杀，杀死（被病痛折磨或危险的动物）
More examples
  • Thesegunswill destroy ordisableanyincomingmissile.
  • Manyimportanthistoricaldocumentswere destroyed in thefire.
  • In 1906 anearthquakedestroyed much ofSanFrancisco.
  • Abombfellon thechurchand destroyed it.
  • Deforestation is destroyinglargeareasoftropicalrainforest.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Destroying and demolishing
  • annihilate
  • annihilation
  • apocalypse
  • bash
  • bash through (something)
  • be sacrificed on the altar ofsomethingidiom
  • fall in
  • in piecesidiom
  • indestructibility
  • killsomethingoff
  • kill the goose that lays the golden eggidiom
  • sacrifice
  • self-destruct
  • self-devouring
  • shred
  • sink
  • stave
  • stavesomethingin
  • tear
  • wipe
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(Definition ofdestroyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

destroy| American Dictionary

destroy
verb[T]
us
/dɪˈstrɔɪ/
todamagesomething,esp. in aviolentway, so that it can nolongerbe used or nolongerexists:
You can use ashredderto destroyoldbankstatements.
Losing hisjobseemedtocompletelydestroy hisconfidence.
(Definition ofdestroyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdestroy

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According to purist views, the exhibition of objects in museums not only irrevocably destroys original contexts, but creates a new context for an object.
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There is a certain complicity between archaeology and modernization: after the archaeologists have done their work, the landscape can be legitimately destroyed.
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Urnfields were systematically destroyed in the reclaimed zones of the landscape.
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In this period, the urnfields under the essen would have been destroyed.
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Once a man's sense of moral responsibility is destroyed, it cannot be expected that he will become either a good soldier or a useful citizen.
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The fire destroyed the buildings, but at the same time transformed them into baked clay and thereby preserved them as foundations for new buildings.
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Everyone who is alive receives utility 1 if the flowers are kept and 1 - if they are destroyed.
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Aboriginal heritage and knowledge of family and ancestors relied on oral traditions that were disrupted and mostly destroyed by colonisation.
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The trolley is heading towards destroying a tool, but can be diverted to a track with one person on it.
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Cessation: an object is destroyed or removed and no longer exists in the real world.
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Reasons for legume seed loss included eating the seed, livestock or birds eating the crop, beetles, weevils or other pests destroying the seeds.
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The numerical goal is to derive a stable scheme that can approximate possibly large gradients without destroying the gauge invariance of the system.
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The election had destroyed any immediate hopes of a future electoral agreement between the parties.
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Such molecules may have been destroyed, altered or displaced into deeper soil layers, where they are protected from radiation and oxidation.
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If these become damaged or even destroyed by exogenous influences the continuation of a specie may be in danger.
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