"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
(36) democracy, Communism
Kolokacji: 2
1. destroy democracy = zniszcz demokrację destroy democracy
  • Years later, Diana Mosley claimed that the Duke and Duchess shared her and her husband's views that Hitler should have been given a free hand to destroy Communism.
  • "I promised you when I saw you last year that I would destroy Communism, and I was as good as my word," one participant quoted him as saying.
  • Mr. Gorbachev's gradualism was brilliantly suited to the complex task of destroying Communism from within.
  • "Every enterprise ripped out of the state and transferred to the hands of a private owner was a way of destroying Communism in Russia," one high-ranking official told Hoffman.
  • Some people look for an explanation to Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the man who destroyed Communism but failed to build anything in its place.
  • "They felt they were destroying Communism," said Shpetim Bajrani, a 19-year-old shopkeeper.
  • But Mr. Gephardt and the unions are right that globalization is as creatively destructive as the earlier versions of capitalism, which destroyed feudalism and Communism.
  • I must take exception with one statement in Specter's article: that Yeltsin "destroyed Communism in Russia."
  • At the Paris Peace Conference, he had made controversial statements about whether blacks should fight to destroy Communism when they were so oppressed in the United States.
(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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