0 to damage something so badly that it cannot be used -- 毁坏，摧毁，毁灭
Most of the old part of the city was destroyed by bombs during the war. 该城的大部分老城区都在战争中被炸毁了。
The accident seemed to have completely/totally destroyed his confidence. 这场事故似乎已彻底击垮了他的信心。
Many important historical documents were destroyed in the fire.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.
