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词汇 destroying
释义 destroying
present participle ofdestroy
destroy
verb[ T ]
uk /dɪˈstrɔɪ/ us /dɪˈstrɔɪ/
B1
to damage something so badly that it cannot be used: 毁坏,摧毁,毁灭
Most of the old part of the city was destroyed by bombs during the war.该城的大部分老城区都在战争中被炸毁了。
completely/totally destroyThe accident seemed to have completely/totally destroyed his confidence.这场事故似乎已彻底击垮了他的信心。
to kill an animal because it is ill, in pain, or dangerous宰杀,灭杀,杀死(被病痛折磨或危险的动物)
These guns will destroy or disable any incoming missile.
Many important historical documents were destroyed in the fire.
In 1906 an earthquake destroyed much of San Francisco.1906年的大地震给旧金山大部分市区带来毁灭性的灾难。
A bomb fell on the church and destroyed it.一颗炸弹落在教堂上,把教堂炸毁了。
Deforestation is destroying large areas of tropical rain forest.滥伐森林毁掉了大面积的热带雨林。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Destroying and demolishing
annihilate
annihilation
apocalypse
bash
bash through (something)
be sacrificed on the altar of somethingidiom
consume
costly
dynamite
erosion
erosional
erosionally
erosive
sabotage
saboteur
sack
sacking
sacrifice
scarred
wipe

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Examples of destroying


destroying

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Nor does the good that one can achieve though destroying a military facility have to be 15.
The puts would probably be priced with an increased volatility, hence destroying the interpretation above.
It functions egocentrically and with self-indulgence, destroying everything in its path.
Far from destroying the principle of the axis, such a brief subway might be an event along its course.
Suppose the stock of knowledge could be improved to permit deflecting or destroying the meteor before it caused harm.
Alternative developmental areas would have involved destroying rare sub-montane rain forest.
In yet another story, the self is undone by destroying its privacy.
The transformations for each level of the hierarchy are chosen to transform the shapes at that level without destroying the key line relations.
Thus, the physical means of destroying the phylloxera were not specific.
We are bound to the republic with such essential and sacred bonds that we could not break them without destroying our own moral character.
Second, the transverse distribution of laser intensity and light pressure over a focus of finite size leads to crater formation, destroying the planar target geometry.
The very notion of destroying something, however, presupposes that it exists.
The wave of hydrodynamic per turbations in a foam matter is accompanied by the destroying of solid elements and their following homogenization.
Small groups of exploitive agents, even when privileged, have little success in taking advantage of, much less destroying, communities of co-operative agents.
Destroying the wicked and revealing the path of righteousness are one and inseparable, like back and front.
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