Destroy \De*stroy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Destroyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Destroying}.] [OE. destroien, destruien, destrien, OF. destruire, F. d['e]truire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to pile up, build. See {Structure}.] 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. --Ex. xxxiv. 13.
2. To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume.
I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation. --Jer. xii. 17.
3. To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill.
If him by force he can destroy, or, worse, By some false guile pervert. --Milton.
"As commander of the armed forces I exhort every single soldier in a total offensive to destroy the enemy, eliminate him, wipe out his will to fight," Samudio said.
'Fear not, little one' the wizard replied. 'Nothing can destroy that which has been forged by the Master.
The new criminal-contempt complaint reiterates the government's allegations that Mr. Eyerman instructed a First Jersey branch manager to conceal and destroy documents to disrupt the efforts of a court-appointed monitor, Benjamin L. Lubin.
The shift in emphasis appears to have been provoked by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who last month warned he would destroy half of Israel with binary chemical weapons in response to any Israeli attack.
Danielsson's 330-ton corvette is armed with artillery and depth charges that could sink a sub, but much of its weaponry is intended to punch holes in the hull of a sub and force it to the surface, rather than destroy it.
Rodolfo Biazon said an informant told the military the sabotage team would try to destroy fighter jets, fuel storage tanks and other equipment at the Basa air base, about 40 miles north of Manila.
Predictions for the coming year? _An earthquake will destroy vast parts of northern Mexico and southern California.
"It's a story about time, and that's universal, and it's a story about two people who need each other but have to destroy each other in order to survive.
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Nili Arad, a state prosecutor, said the army had no immediate plans to destroy more homes in Beita.
Someone will actually benefit from this." Previously, Customs had no recourse but to spend "hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' dollars to destroy this clothing," von Raab said.
Later, they might export the technology so other countries could destroy their wastes at designated sites, he said.
It is concerns such as these that the bid committee addresses when IOC delegates are visiting. He insists that the job is to destroy misconceptions rather than to improve the image.
Fear in many cases can destroy their operations."
The Communist Party said Thursday that two prominent Bolsheviks were innocent of anti-Soviet activity and political mistakes, the charges Josef Stalin used to destroy them in the 1930s.
"The Tribune organization has been trying to set up a situation where they could legally destroy the unions - force a strike, so they could legally shut down the paper," Don Singleton, a Daily News reporter and bargaining team member, told the crowd.
It would use nuclear weapons and other advanced technology to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles aimed at the United States.
The Army announced Tuesday it intends to build incinerators at eight ammunition depots around the country to destroy old chemical weapons because it doesn't want to risk moving the munitions.
Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shervardnadze said Sunday in Paris the Soviet Union will destroy its stockpiles of chemical weapons starting this year.
Earlier this year, Saddam threatened to destroy half of Israel with internationally outlawed chemical weapons if Israel tried to attack any Iraqi military facilities.
The KKV would then destroy the incoming missile, Rocketdyne said.
In January, the Pentagon incorporated the "Brilliant Pebbles" concept into Phase 1. The technology involves several thousand interceptors that would orbit the Earth to seek and destroy a target by smashing into it at high speeds.
If a recession should occur it could ruin some overleveraged companies and destroy values in pension funds, stocks, mutual funds and college endowments.
Do you think the PLO wants to destroy Israel, or do you think it would accept a Palestinian state coexisting with Israel?
A mushrooming of large stores could destroy local shopping communities, he added.
"This whole thing is a joke," he said in a brief closing statement. "They want to destroy us because we're consistent." "I will continue what I'm doing because I'm right and I'm not liable like they say," Metzger said.
Protesters fear a new high-speed line through Provence to Marseille would destroy the region's scenic beauty and its important wine industry.
Price controls are easy, but as Mr. Funaro is learning, restoring some semblance of a market after price controls have begun to destroy production is the hard part.
The U.S. reversed its policy and announced that it would support a special international fund to wean developing countries from the use of chemicals that destroy the atmosphere's protective ozone layer.
Efficiency doesn't destroy jobs, it generates the wealth to create new, and usually better, jobs.