"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 40
(2) document, copy, paper, note
Kolokacji: 4
(8) life, wildlife
Kolokacji: 2
(9) weapon, missile, warhead
Kolokacji: 3
(13) record, book, page, content
Kolokacji: 4
(16) reputation, stock, flower
Kolokacji: 3
(19) car, machine, machinery, train
Kolokacji: 4
(22) habitat, Yugoslavia, Carthage
Kolokacji: 3
2. destroy Yugoslavia = zniszcz Jugosławię destroy Yugoslavia
  • Serbia did not seek to destroy Yugoslavia; it was Slovenia and Croatia that first used force to change Yugoslav borders.
  • Then by creating the war, he destroyed Yugoslavia.
  • It was seen as part of a plot by the US to destroy Yugoslavia, expand eastward and control all of Europe.
  • He expressed the conviction that nationalism wouldn't succeed neither in destroying Yugoslavia nor in turning it into a centralized country.
  • Italy intended to use the movement to destroy Yugoslavia, which would allow Italy to expand its power through the Adriatic.
  • In the tumult that has destroyed Yugoslavia, Macedonia has defied its bitter history of conflict by remaining at peace.
  • "It is a biological bomb destroying Yugoslavia."
  • He was therefore determined, "without waiting for possible declarations of loyalty of the new government, to destroy Yugoslavia militarily and as a nation.
  • The West set out to destroy Yugoslavia by fomenting unrest, and it succeeded.
  • The Belgrade based media sometimes reported about the alleged conspiracy of 'foreign forces' to destroy Yugoslavia.
3. destroy Carthage = zniszcz Kartaginę destroy Carthage
(24) thousands, hundreds
Kolokacji: 2
(27) credibility, nature
Kolokacji: 2
(28) others, future
Kolokacji: 2
(29) work, mine, farm, shop
Kolokacji: 4
(33) file, furniture
Kolokacji: 2
(34) morale, tumor, health, nerve
Kolokacji: 4
(35) bunker, fortification, art
Kolokacji: 3
(36) democracy, Communism
Kolokacji: 2
(38) economy, capitalism
Kolokacji: 2
(39) time, store, memory
Kolokacji: 3
(40) dream, freedom, happiness
Kolokacji: 3
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 • ...

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