destroy
I
(efface) verb
abort, annihilate, blast, blight, blot out, break to pieces, bring to ruin, burn, consume, corrode, deal destruction, decimate, deface, demolish, desolate, destruct, destruere, devastate, devour, diruere, disintegrate, dissolve, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, gut, incinerate, kill, lay waste, level, liquidate, murder, mutilate, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, perdere, pulverize, put to death, quell, ravage, raze, reduce to nothing, rend, root out, rub out, ruin, ruinate, scratch out, slay, subvert, uproot, waste, wipe out, wreck
associated concepts: destroy a will, fraudulently destroyed, lost or destroyed
II
(void) verb
abolish, annul, break up, bring to naught, completely end, dismantle, extinguish, invalidate, make null, nullify, put an end to, render ineffective, terminate, unmake
associated concepts: destruction of contingent remainders
III
index
abate (extinguish), abolish, abrogate (rescind), annul, break (fracture), consume, countervail, damage, deface, denounce (condemn), devastate, discontinue (abandon), dispatch (put to death), dissolve (terminate), eliminate (eradicate), eradicate, expunge, extinguish, extirpate, kill (defeat), kill (murder), mistreat, negate, obliterate, overcome (surmount), overturn, overwhelm, pillage, pollute, prejudice (injure), prey, quash, refute, slay, spoil (impair), stifle, subvert, upset, vitiate
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006