"destroy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

destroy verbo

destroy + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 214
destroy evidence • destroy documents • destroy property • destroy buildings • destroy cells • destroy part • destroy crops • ...
verbo + destroy
Kolokacji: 45
threaten to destroy • attempt to destroy • seek to destroy • try to destroy • intend to destroy • manage to destroy • want to destroy • ...
destroy + preposición
Kolokacji: 43
destroyed by • destroyed during • destroyed before • destroyed after • destroyed in • ...
destroy + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 86
completely destroyed • totally destroyed • largely destroyed • utterly destroyed • partially destroyed • eventually destroy • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 15
(3) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(4) virtually, essentially
Kolokacji: 2
(5) effectively, potentially
Kolokacji: 2
(6) systematically, methodically
Kolokacji: 2
(9) immediately, instantly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) simply, literally, truly
Kolokacji: 3
(11) actually, practically
Kolokacji: 2
  • The town was practically destroyed during the fighting in the area.
  • "You practically destroyed two people just to keep them apart."
  • Then in the 1970's she practically destroyed herself with heroin.
  • And there was a time when he practically destroyed Joan herself on the set.
  • An ally of the Socialist party had been practically destroyed.
  • By early November the combined fleet had been practically destroyed.
  • The publication of this book practically destroyed all his chances to become professor at a German university.
  • In a short time they quickly multiplied and practically destroyed all vegetation.
  • But this pact was practically destroyed by the grinding economic crisis of the last two years.
  • On February 14, 1858, a furnace fire practically destroyed the interior of the building.
(12) permanently, temporarily
Kolokacji: 2
(13) gradually, suddenly
Kolokacji: 2
(15) repeatedly, periodically
Kolokacji: 2

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