blow up

This week he used the military to blow up another boat off the coast of Venezuela, claiming those on the boat were narco-terrorists.

A U.S. naval ship blew up a vessel in the Caribbean that the president claimed belonged to a drug cartel and was being used to smuggle illegal narcotics.

Bypassing these bilateral and international treaties to dramatically blow up a ship not only violates law, but it will, I believe, further undermine trust and confidence in these or any other agreements the U.S. makes.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the US will "blow up" foreign crime groups if needed, possibly in collaboration with other countries.

When Kennedy refused to agree with Warner’s assertion that “a million Americans died from COVID,” the senator blew up.