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defeated
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??fi?t?d/
Adjective
defeated (comparative more defeated, superlative most defeated)
- Subjugated, beaten, overcome.
Translations
Verb
defeated
- simple past tense and past participle of defeat
defeated From the web:
- what defeated napoleon
- what defeated napoleon in russia
- what defeated the roman empire
- what defeated the spanish armada
- what defeated the mongols
- what defeated mean
- what defeated the aztecs
- what defeated the vikings
destroy
English
Etymology
From Middle English destroyen, from Old French destruire, Vulgar Latin *destrug?, from Classical Latin d?stru?, from d?- (“un-, de-”) + stru? (“I build”). Displaced native shend (“destroy, injure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??st???/
- Rhymes: -??
- Hyphenation: de?stroy
Verb
destroy (third-person singular simple present destroys, present participle destroying, simple past and past participle destroyed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
- (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.
- 2005, Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide
- Other girls in the foster home are eager to destroy her and get her kicked out of the place. It's a tough situation.
- 2005, Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide
- (colloquial, transitive, hyperbolic) To defeat soundly.
- (computing, transitive) To remove data.
- (US, colloquial, slang) To sing a song poorly.
- (bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up.
- (slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
Synonyms
- annihilate
- break
- demolish
- kill
- ruin
- waste
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
Antonyms
- build
- construct
- create
- make
- raise
- repair
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- stroyed
destroy From the web:
- what destroys the ozone layer
- what destroyed the roman empire
- what destroys pathogens
- what destroyed the dinosaurs
- what destroyed the roman republic
- what destroyed pompeii
- what destroys red blood cells
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