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