Definitions for destroyed
de·stroyed

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. destroyedadjective

   spoiled or ruined or demolished

   "war left many cities destroyed"; "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind"

2. destroyed, ruinedadjective

   destroyed physically or morally

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Destroyed

   of Destroy

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1. Destroyed

   Destroyed is the first full length studio album by punk band Sloppy Seconds. It was released in 1989 on Toxic Shock records. The album cover is a parody of the Kiss album Destroyer from 1976.

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1. destroyed

   A condition of a target so damaged that it can neither function as intended nor be restored to a usable condition. In the case of a building, all vertical supports and spanning members are damaged to such an extent that nothing is salvageable. In the case of bridges, all spans must have dropped and all piers must require replacement.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'destroyed' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3143

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'destroyed' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4840

How to pronounce destroyed?

1. Alex

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Fred

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of destroyed in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of destroyed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of destroyed in a Sentence

1. Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln:

   I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

2. Cindy Warmbier:

   I need a strong woman who understands what I went through to stand up to North Korea. Otto was a beautiful boy. He was an incredible son. I had no idea what North Korea was about. I wish I had known, they took the most beautiful boy and destroyed him.

3. Juerg Zeltner:

   Goodwill got fully destroyed after the crisis and to rebuild that takes a long time, sometimes I think to myself it takes a generation. Maybe it requires a new generation of people who believe that the system has learned and things have been rebalanced.

4. Mark Bederow:

   Commercial burglaries will be subjected to a lax standard of prosecution, which hopefully will not encourage criminals to descend upon Manhattan to engage in the flash mob burglaries that have all but destroyed business in San Francisco.

5. Ryszard Kapuściński:

   First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

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