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destroying

noun as in ruining

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The very people who promised us that they would protect our Constitution are the ones destroying it.

This mass incarceration is destroying the Black community -- it is, as Michelle Alexander writes, the New Jim Crow.

“Hurting others or destroying property is not the answer,” the elder Brown had said last week in a public-service video.

Stop Trying to Save the World By Michael Hobbes, The New Republic Big ideas are destroying international development.

When Emmanuel came he tried to educate us, telling us you have to stop killing, destroying, being corrupted.

However, as the spring began in the very heart of the village, they could not take it without destroying the village.

French evacuated Almeida, after destroying everything, and the next day they abandoned Portugal entirely.

She did not realize that a passion for a business enterprise, as for a woman, is capable of destroying the balance of any man.

This higher authority, which no legislature could "overleap without destroying its own foundation," was the British Constitution.

The horn worm, if large, eats the leaves in the finest part of them, frequently destroying half of a leaf.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to destroying, such as: spoiling, wrecking, carnage, and destruction.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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