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Princeton's WordNet

  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

ChatGPT

  1. destroyed

    Destroyed refers to the state or condition of something that has been damaged so severely or completely that it no longer exists, works effectively or serves its original purpose. This could involve breaking down, crushing, burning, tearing apart or obliterating and could apply to physical objects, ideas, health or relationships.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Destroyed

    of Destroy

Freebase

  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.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  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

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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. Abraham Lincoln:

    Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.

  2. Theresa Mapes:

    He took my world away, he destroyed my world. He destroyed my life. He destroyed my family.

  3. Marina Krim:

    The defendant set out to destroy what Kevin Krim and I created and built : an inspired, happy, thriving family, but she failed. What actually happened is the defendant destroyed her own family. She has destroyed the pride her family once felt. She has destroyed any sense of peace they'll ever have.

  4. Bahram Baloch:

    Nations are never destroyed due to casual accidents. They are destroyed when their congregation perception ends.

  5. Jamie LeSueur:

    The scale of devastation is enormous. It seems that 90 per cent of the area is completely destroyed, almost everything is destroyed. Communication lines have been completely cut and roads have been destroyed.

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