destroying

Meaning of destroying

verb
  1. To damage beyond use or repair.
    Hooligans destroy unprovoked.
  2. To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
    Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate.
  3. To put down or euthanize.
    Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
  4. To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
    Her divorce destroyed her; she had a nervous breakdown and was severely depressed for more than a year.
  5. To defeat soundly.
  6. To remove data.
    The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.
  7. To sing a song poorly.
  8. (antiphrasis) To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up.
    This exercise is going to destroy all parts of your shoulders.
  9. To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
    She got destroyed by her lover on the carpet.

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  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of destroying

de-stroy-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • destroying is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

destroying synonyms

Meaning :

annihilate, break, demolish, kill, ruin, waste

destroying antonyms

Meaning :

build, construct, create, make, raise, repair

Words that rhyme with destroying

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