0 present participle of destroy --
1 to damage something so badly that it cannot be used: --
The accident seemed to have completely/totally destroyed his confidence.
Most of the old part of the city was destroyed by bombs during the war.
Destroying the wicked and revealing the path of righteousness are one and inseparable, like back and front.
Small groups of exploitive agents, even when privileged, have little success in taking advantage of, much less destroying, communities of co-operative agents.
The wave of hydrodynamic per turbations in a foam matter is accompanied by the destroying of solid elements and their following homogenization.
The very notion of destroying something, however, presupposes that it exists.
Second, the transverse distribution of laser intensity and light pressure over a focus of finite size leads to crater formation, destroying the planar target geometry.
We are bound to the republic with such essential and sacred bonds that we could not break them without destroying our own moral character.
Thus, the physical means of destroying the phylloxera were not specific.
The transformations for each level of the hierarchy are chosen to transform the shapes at that level without destroying the key line relations.
