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DESTROYED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spoiled or ruined or demolished
Example:
Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind
Classified under:
Similar:
wrecked (destroyed in an accident)
annihilated; exterminated; wiped out (destroyed completely)
blighted; spoilt (affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity)
blotted out; obliterate; obliterated (reduced to nothingness)
broken; impoverished; wiped out (destroyed financially)
burned; burned-out; burned-over; burnt; burnt-out (destroyed or badly damaged by fire)
demolished; dismantled; razed (torn down and broken up)
despoiled; pillaged; raped; ravaged; sacked (having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence)
done for; gone; kaput (destroyed or killed)
extinguished (of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement)
fallen (having fallen in or collapsed)
finished; ruined (brought to ruin)
scorched (having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy)
shattered; tattered (ruined or disrupted)
totaled (used of automobiles; completely demolished)
war-torn; war-worn (laid waste by war)
Also:
damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)
Antonym:
preserved (kept intact or in a particular condition)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Destroyed physically or morally
Synonyms:
destroyed; ruined
Classified under:
Similar:
lost (spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb destroy
Context examples:
To allow cell-cycle progression, estrogens stimulate production of Efp, which binds and ubiquinates 14-3-3s sigma. 14-3-3s marked with ubiquitin chains is recognized and destroyed by the proteasome.
(EFP Cell Cycle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
A monoclonal antibody used to prevent red blood cells from being destroyed in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a red blood cell disorder.
(Eculizumab, NCI Dictionary)
Viruses that are tropic for CXCR4 are generally syncytium forming, causing T cells to aggregate and be destroyed at a rapid rate.CXCR4 induces downstream signaling by several different pathways.
(CXCR4 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
One strategy to treat diabetes is to replace destroyed beta cells.
(Developing Insulin-Producing Cells to Treat Diabetes, NIH)
A moon may have existed at that location within the past hundred million years or so and was destroyed, perhaps by a giant impact.
(At Saturn, One of These Rings is not like the Others, NASA)
True; but you would have destroyed me out of your well-meaning.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It is a very justifiable cause of a war, to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“William received a letter by the afternoon post yesterday. The envelope was destroyed by him.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Had he read that letter his confidence would have been forever destroyed.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No one has ever destroyed her before, so I naturally thought she would make slaves of you, as she has of the rest.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
