0 past simple and past participle of destroy
1 to damage something so badly that it cannot be used:
Most of the old part of the city was destroyed by bombs during the war.
The accident seemed to have completely/totally destroyed his confidence.
Many important historical documents were destroyed in the fire.
In 1906 an earthquake destroyed much of San Francisco.
Deforestation is destroying large areas of tropical rain forest.
And whose were the visible traces in the destroyed vineyards, the phylloxera's or the government's?
The election had destroyed any immediate hopes of a future electoral agreement between the parties.
For this reason, parasites have developed sophisticated self-regulating mechanisms to evade the immune response and to avoid being destroyed by the host.
