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How to pronounce “destroy”
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Pronunciation guide for destroy
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of destroy with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Tetraktys
to try to hunt down and destroy a group that may be older and wiser than we are and could
- Definition summary
- (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
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How to pronounce destroy
Tetraktys
to try to hunt down and destroy a group that may be older and wiser than we are and could
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “destroy”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
- (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
- (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
- (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush.
- (transitive, computing) To remove data.
- (transitive, bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build up.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
- (transitive, US, slang) To sing a song extremely poorly.
- (transitive, slang) To eat food quickly, hungrily or completely.
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