KJV Dictionary Definition: destroy

destroy

DESTROY, v.t. L. To pile, to build.

1. To demolish; to pull down; to separate the parts of an edifice, the union of which is necessary to constitute the thing; as, to destroy a house or temple; to destroy a fortification.

2. To ruin; to annihilate a thing by demolishing or by burning; as, to destroy a city.

3. To ruin; to bring to naught; to annihilate; as, to destroy a theory or scheme; to destroy a government; to destroy influence.

4. To lay waste; to make desolate.

Go up against this land, and destroy it. Is. 36.

5. To kill; to slay; to extirpate; applied to men or other animals.

Ye shall destroy all this people. Num. 32.

All the wicked will he destroy. Ps. 145.

6. To take away; to cause to cease; to put an end to; as, pain destroys happiness.

That the body of sin might be destroyed. Rom 6.

7. To kill; to eat; to devour; to consume. Birds destroy insects. Hawks destroy chickens.

8. In general, to put an end to; to annihilate a thing or the form in which it exists. An army is destroyed by slaughter, capture or dispersion; a forest, by the ax, or by fire; towns, by fire or inundation, &c.

9. In chimistry, to resolve a body into its parts or elements.

destroyed

DESTROYED, pp. Demolished; pulled down; ruined; annihilated; devoured; swept away; &c.

destroying

DESTROYING, ppr. Demolishing; laying waste; killing; annihilating; putting an end to.

DESTROYING, n. Destruction.