0 to damage something so badly that it cannot be used -- 毀壞，摧毀，毀滅
Most of the old part of the city was destroyed by bombs during the war. 該城的大部分老城區都在戰爭中被炸毀了。
The accident seemed to have completely/totally destroyed his confidence. 這場事故似乎已徹底擊垮了他的信心。
Many important historical documents were destroyed in the fire.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.
According to purist views, the exhibition of objects in museums not only irrevocably destroys original contexts, but creates a new context for an object.
There is a certain complicity between archaeology and modernization: after the archaeologists have done their work, the landscape can be legitimately destroyed.
Urnfields were systematically destroyed in the reclaimed zones of the landscape.
