Demolish; pull down

Usage examples of destroy.

One regiment was almost entirely destroyed, the other pressed forward as far as the abattis, fighting so desperately that Daun was obliged to bring up large reinforcements before he could drive the survivors back.

He thought of Actaeon, the young hunteR Diana had destroyed for spying upon her.

Acutely sensitive to all that Vergennes had done to destroy his reputation with Congress, including enlisting Franklin to help make the case against him, Adams was no more eager to see Vergennes than he had been to see Franklin.

Now, in the eleventh hour of the election, Hamilton lashed out in a desperate effort to destroy Adams, the leading candidate of his own party.

Wolcott, for all he had done secretly to destroy Adams, was happy to accept the appointment.

Of course when the wall yields and the breach has to be defended the warehouses will be held, and as the windows will command the breach they will be great aids to us then, and it would be a great disadvantage to us if the Spaniards now were to throw shells and fireballs into these houses, and so to destroy them before they make their attack.

Our only practical experience comes from the primitive bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that ludicrous Pakistani explosion and the single airburst that destroyed Porto Alegre and terminated the incident between Brazil and Argentina.

Lakunai Airdrome and he had destroyed sixteen airplanes and killed more than eighty men as the American machine exploded in a long gout of flame and debris.

The best we could hope for, if the Skyhook does not arrive, is to remove some of the more vital systems from the airframe, then destroy it.

Skyhook does not arrive before the deadline expires - you will destroy the airframe completely.

The other eleven men in the sparsely furnished room knew exactly what he meant: The Alamo must be destroyed.

In that dreadful day, thought the Algonkins, when in anger Michabo will send a mortal pestilence to destroy the nations, or, stamping his foot on the ground, flames will burst forth to consume the habitable land, only a pair, or only, at most, those who have maintained inviolate the institutions he ordained, will he protect and preserve to inhabit the new world he will then fabricate.

When the forest was destroyed, Captain Alima had turned his weapons on the Tafanda Bay and ordered Nadon to surrender.

As much as Nadon detested violence, he knew that Alima was a monster, someone who must be destroyed.

His elders would have let the Imperials destroy the Bafforr forests of Cathor Hills, trusting that some shred of de cency left in Alima would make him stop short of genocide against an entire species.