"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
(12) permanently, temporarily
Kolokacji: 2
(13) gradually, suddenly
Kolokacji: 2
1. wantonly destroyed = bez skrupułów zniszczony wantonly destroyed
2. humanely destroyed = humanitarnie zniszczony humanely destroyed
3. brutally destroyed = brutalnie zniszczyć brutally destroyed
4. destroy evil = zniszcz zło destroy evil
5. maliciously destroy = złośliwie niszczyć maliciously destroy
  • The United States attorney in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, charged Mr. Helder tonight with using an explosive to maliciously destroy property affecting interstate commerce and using a destructive device to commit a crime of violence, charges that could send him to prison for life.
  • Tanzler was psychiatrically examined, and found mentally competent to stand trial on the charge of "wantonly and maliciously destroying a grave and removing a body without authorization."
  • An Act was passed in 1765, making it a felony punishable by death to break into any house, or shop, with the intent to maliciously destroy, or damage, any silk in the process of manufacture.
  • However, it was not for that that I left him jailed, but for maliciously destroying the only public well in one of his wretched villages.
  • Stardock countersued alleging that Miseta maliciously destroyed company property when she departed.
  • While many young people with modems and personal computers are innocently exploring networks as they would the secret passages in an interactive fantasy game, others are maliciously destroying every system they can get into.
  • But, she added, "when someone maliciously destroys them, there's a feeling of loss."
  • - unless the clothes were all reasonably orderly to begin with, which is where I come in, constantly re-creating orderliness for the customers to maliciously destroy.
(15) repeatedly, periodically
Kolokacji: 2

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