"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
(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
1. destroy bunkers = zniszcz bunkry destroy bunkers
3. destroy art = zniszcz sztukę destroy art
  • The pursuit of lucre destroyed him as an artist just as it is destroying art in general.
  • "We feel that it is unacceptable for him to destroy art in this way."
  • Jeanne-Claude added, "We find it outrageous that some people can destroy art."
  • This comparison seems to be an effort to make peace with modern technology, conceding that it can enhance experience and does not necessarily destroy art.
  • Still, living slavishly in the past destroys art as surely as it does people.
  • We seem keener on destroying art than placing it at the center of civic life.
  • When you consider that dadaists sought to destroy art and all its institutions?
  • The woman was now repeating herself, and going on at length about how she hated the political and religious forces which destroyed art and buildings.
  • The wicked colorizers, they say, are nothing but a bunch of guys trying to make a buck and are in the process destroying art.
  • This is undoubtedly true, but what about the Hollywood moguls and directors who have destroyed other equally valid art in making their motion pictures?
(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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