Thesaurus:destroy

Thesaurus

destroy

English

Verb

Sense: to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate

Synonyms

• destroy
• annihilate
• aerosolize
• atomize
• benothing (obsolete, rare)
• bewreck
• blot out
• blotto
• decompose
• demolish
• devastate
• diffuse    [⇒ thesaurus]
• disintegrate
• disperse    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dissolve
• eliminate
• eradicate
• erase
• exterminate
• extinguish
• extirpate
• fuck    [⇒ thesaurus] (vulgar)
• jazz
• lay waste
• level
• liquidate
• nuke
• obliterate
• pull down
• raze
• ravage
• remove    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ruin
• total    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unexist    [⇒ thesaurus]
• uproot
• waste
• wipe out
• wipe off
• wreck

Antonyms

• build    [⇒ thesaurus]
• construct
• create
• make
• produce
• rebuild
• recover

Further reading

• “162. destruction” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “destroy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.