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Destroyed   /dɪstrˈɔɪd/   Listen
Destroyed

adjective
1.
Spoiled or ruined or demolished.  "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind"
2.
Destroyed physically or morally.  Synonym: ruined.



Destroy

verb
(past & past part. destroyed; pres. part. destroying)
1.
Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of.  Synonym: destruct.
2.
Destroy completely; damage irreparably.  Synonym: ruin.  "The tears ruined her make-up"
3.
Defeat soundly.  Synonym: demolish.
4.
Put (an animal) to death.  Synonym: put down.  "The sick cat had to be put down"



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"Destroyed" Quotes from Famous Books



... attributes. He is "voracious;" his "inebriety is most intense;" he "dances with delight in battle." His worshipers supply him abundantly with the drink he loves; and he supports them against their foes, ninety and more of whose cities he has destroyed. We do not know that these foes, the Dasyus, were morally worse than the intrusive Aryas, but the feelings of the latter toward the former were of unexampled ferocity. Here is one ...
— Two Old Faiths - Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans • J. Murray Mitchell and William Muir

... innocuous. In some instances the rabbit died within two hours. It was also found that in the case of the patient in the Breslau Hospital the pyrogallic acid had acted by its extreme avidity for oxygen when in contact with alkaline fluids. The blood had been affected, and the red corpuscles were destroyed and turned brown. Very little urine was voided, but it presented a most extraordinary character, being dark brown and very thick; it contained no blood corpuscles, but a considerable amount of haemoglobine (the coloring matter of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 • Various

... purposes for which religion is meant. Then followed, in the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin, the purely historical and scientific treatment of religion, which, while it explained many things and destroyed many things, never interfered with my early ideas of right and wrong, never disturbed my life with God and in God, and seemed to satisfy all my religious wants. I never was frightened or shaken by the critical writings of Strauss or Ewald, of Renan or Colenso. If what they said had an honest ...
— My Autobiography - A Fragment • F. Max Mueller

... Oliver routed the Welsh insurgents, and, leaving their castles in ruins, marched against the Scots. His troops were few, when compared with the invaders; but he was little in the habit of counting his enemies. The Scottish army was utterly destroyed. A change in the Scottish government followed. An administration, hostile to the King, was formed at Edinburgh; and Cromwell, more than ever the darling of his soldiers, returned ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... night, the houses, 56 and 58 Reverdy Road, Bermondsey, were assailed with stones and other missiles coming from an unseen quarter. Two children were injured, every window broken, and several articles of furniture were destroyed. Although there was a strong body of policemen scattered in the neighborhood, they could not trace the direction whence ...
— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort


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