- Types Of Speech
- You can use destroy as a verb in a sentence.
- About Destroy
- A 2 syllables verb and 7 letters with the letters d, e, o, r, s, t, and y, 5 consonants, 2 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter t. Destroy starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, de, des, dest, destr, and the ending characters are y, oy, roy, troy, stroy, ..
- Definition
- Defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- Compound Words
- A compound word, destroy has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are des, and troy.
- School Grade
- Destroy is set as a grade seven word that starts with d, ends with y, 2 syllables, 2 vowels and 7 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is destroy a scrabble word? A 11 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Destroy in Pig Latin is said as "estroyday or estroydway".
- Unigram
- d | e | s | t | r | o | y
- Bigram
- de | es | st | tr | ro | oy
- Trigram
- des | est | str | tro | roy
- Quadrigram
- dest | estr | stro | troy
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- defeat soundly;
"The home team demolished the visitors" - as of animals;
"The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid" - destroy completely;
damage irreparably;
"You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!";
"The tears ruined her make-up" - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of;
"The fire destroyed the house"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abolish | do away with "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia" |
| Abuse | cruel or inhumane treatment |
| Adhere | follow through or carry out a plan without deviation "They adhered to their plan" |
| Afflict | cause bodily suffering to |
| Aggregate | the whole amount |
| Aggrieve | break the heart of cause to feel sorrow |
| Ail | aromatic bulb used as seasoning |
| Amaze | be a mystery or bewildering to "This beats me!" "Got me--I don''t know the answer!" "a vexing problem" "This question really stuck me" |
| Ambo | a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it |
| Anaesthetise | make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Destroy
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Destroy | defeat soundly "The home team demolished the visitors" |
View English words with the unique letters used in destroy. Words With The Letters Deorsty
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Demolition | the act of demolishing |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Defeat | an unsuccessful ending |
| Get The Better Of | |
| Overcome | overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome "Heart disease can get the best of us" |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cut To Ribbons | |
| Smash | a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang" |
| Swallow | the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips" |
| Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| To Keep Readers Attention Fear Mongering | Use destroy | Fear is a powerful emotion for grabbing and keeping an audience’s attention. What fear mongering words do the news net... read more |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Destroyer (9 letters) | 13 +2 | 12 +2 | destroyer | ||
| Destroy (7 letters) | 11 | 10 | destroy | ||
| Destroyed (9 letters) | 14 +3 | 13 +3 | destroyed | ||
| Storeyed (8 letters) | 12 +1 | 11 +1 | storeyed | ||
| Oysterbed (9 letters) | 15 +4 | 15 +5 | bdeeorsty |
Destroy Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With Y
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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