"destroy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Aurantimonas coralicida causes a white plague in corals, progressively destroying their tissues and leaving an expanding area that appears bleached.
- Bottom trawlers progressively destroy the biogenic structures built over many years on the seafloor by the filter and detritus feeders.
- Austin maintains a deadpan expression as Chaplin progressively destroys his clock, then hands the pieces back to Austin.
- In 1863 phylloxera first appeared and progressively destroyed the majority of French vineyards except for some in sandy terrain.
- SIR - My anguish at all that is progressively destroying our country reaches new heights with this report about pushing the old out of their houses.
- Each casting progressively destroys the interior of the mould, so after a relatively limited number of casts, the mould has to be discarded and new ones made from the master.
- There is no known cause of A.L.S., which progressively destroys motor neurons to the point where patients can no longer breathe or swallow on their own.
- A brain scan showed that these lapses were symptoms of glioblastoma, a brain tumor that progressively destroys language, memory and the ability to move.
- Air pollution is a major contributor to C.O.P.D., an irreversible disease that progressively destroys the lungs.
- The armed struggle of the second decade of the century progressively destroyed the national state.
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