English words for 'Pronunciation spelling of destroying.'
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verb
- (slang) To destroy; to ruin.
- (intransitive, slang) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
- (slang, transitive) To distract or pester.
- (slang) To ejaculate.
- To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.
- To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
- (slang) To complicate.
- To play (jazz music).
- play something in the style of jazz
- have sexual intercourse with
noun
- Nonsense.
- (figurative) Energy, excitement, excitability.
- (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
- The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
- (slang) Semen, jizz.
- A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
- (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
- a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
- a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
verb
noun
- (Scotland) Red chalk; ruddle.
- (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
- (brewing) A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
- (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
- (aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
- (by extension) The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg.
- (nautical) A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
- (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
- (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
- a projection or ridge that suggests a keel
- the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly
- one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability
verb
- (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
- (rare) To back out of something.
- (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- (zoology, of sugar gliders) To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.
- (transitive) To complain about.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
- (intransitive) To complain.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
- scurry sideways like a crab
- complain
- fish for crab
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
noun
- (Singapore, military, slang) On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
- (uncountable, aviation) Ellipsis of crab angle.
- (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
- (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- (derogatory, Blood slang) A member of the Crips.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- A horseshoe crab.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A bad-tempered person.
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a quarrelsome grouch
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
verb
intj
noun
- (UK law) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- (slang, UK, US) A whippersnapper, a tyke.
- (slang, Commonwealth) Someone who is very fond of something
- (slang, Commonwealth, Hawaii) A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- (slang, derogatory, Commonwealth, Hawaii) A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
- (slang, Commonwealth, Hawaii) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
- One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
- someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
verb
noun
- (metallurgy) A machine that mixes clay and sand under a roller for use in preparing a mould for metal casting.
- A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
- (by extension) A device used for crushing or grinding.
- A person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages.
- (chiefly art, pharmacy) A stone with a flat grinding surface, which is held in the hand and rubbed on a slab to grind paint pigments, medicinal powders, etc.
- a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
- a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
- a vessel in which wine is mulled
verb
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
adj
noun
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
verb
- (UK, New Zealand, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
- (transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
- (UK, Australia, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.
- (UK, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
- (UK, slang) To go very fast.
- To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
- beat with a cane
noun
- (with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
- (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
- A lance or dart made of cane.
- (uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
- (countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path.
- (uncountable) Sugar cane.
- (uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.
- A local European measure of length; the canna.
- (countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
- (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
- (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
- (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.
- a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
- a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
- a stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment
verb
- (figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.
- To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
- (figuratively) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
- (slang, video games) To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.
- To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
- deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
- deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
noun
- (uncountable, dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) Scrapple.
- (offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
- (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
- (by extension, figurative) A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
- A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
- someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
adj
- (slang) Wrecked; damaged; ruined; injured.
- (slang) Reprehensible; objectionable.
- (slang, automotive) Describes a 4x4 automobile that has a "lift kit", raising the body and/or frame higher than stock.
- (slang) Stimulated, excited.
- (informal) Significantly increased or expanded.
- Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.
- (slang) Under the influence of stimulants; high.
verb
verb
adj
adj
intj
noun
- A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
- A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.
- (dentistry) A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
- A former coin of Nepal, 128 of which were worth one mohar.
- A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.
- (India) An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.
- (South Africa, Australia) A reservoir.
- Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.
- The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure.
- female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- a metric unit of length equal to ten meters
verb
verb
adj
- (mathematics, of a function) Defined on all possible inputs.
- Entire; relating to the whole of something.
- (mathematics, more generally, of a relation R on X × Y) Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.
- (mathematics, of a partial order ≤) Such that any two elements are comparable, i.e. for all a and b, either a ≤ b, or b ≤ a.
- (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
- constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
- complete in extent or degree and in every particular
noun
verb
- (slang) To destroy; to ruin.
- (intransitive, slang) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
- (slang, transitive) To distract or pester.
- (slang) To ejaculate.
- To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.
- To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
- (slang) To complicate.
- To play (jazz music).
- play something in the style of jazz
- have sexual intercourse with
noun
- Nonsense.
- (figurative) Energy, excitement, excitability.
- (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
- The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
- (slang) Semen, jizz.
- A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
- (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
- a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
- a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
verb
noun
- (Scotland) Red chalk; ruddle.
- (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
- (brewing) A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
- (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
- (aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
- (by extension) The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg.
- (nautical) A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
- (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
- (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
- a projection or ridge that suggests a keel
- the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly
- one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability
verb
- (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
- (rare) To back out of something.
- (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- (zoology, of sugar gliders) To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.
- (transitive) To complain about.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
- (intransitive) To complain.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
- scurry sideways like a crab
- complain
- fish for crab
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
noun
- (Singapore, military, slang) On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
- (uncountable, aviation) Ellipsis of crab angle.
- (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
- (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- (derogatory, Blood slang) A member of the Crips.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- A horseshoe crab.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A bad-tempered person.
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a quarrelsome grouch
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
verb
intj
noun
- (UK law) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- (slang, UK, US) A whippersnapper, a tyke.
- (slang, Commonwealth) Someone who is very fond of something
- (slang, Commonwealth, Hawaii) A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- (slang, derogatory, Commonwealth, Hawaii) A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
- (slang, Commonwealth, Hawaii) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
- One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
- someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
verb
noun
- (metallurgy) A machine that mixes clay and sand under a roller for use in preparing a mould for metal casting.
- A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
- (by extension) A device used for crushing or grinding.
- A person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages.
- (chiefly art, pharmacy) A stone with a flat grinding surface, which is held in the hand and rubbed on a slab to grind paint pigments, medicinal powders, etc.
- a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
- a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
- a vessel in which wine is mulled
verb
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- use inefficiently or inappropriately
- dispose of
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- cause to grow thin or weak
- run off as waste
- become physically weaker
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- spend extravagantly
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
adj
noun
- Gradual loss or decay.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
- Excrement or urine.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- A vast expanse of water.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the trait of wasting resources
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
verb
- (UK, New Zealand, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
- (transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
- (UK, Australia, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.
- (UK, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
- (UK, slang) To go very fast.
- To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
- beat with a cane
noun
- (with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
- (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
- A lance or dart made of cane.
- (uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
- (countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path.
- (uncountable) Sugar cane.
- (uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.
- A local European measure of length; the canna.
- (countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
- (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
- (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
- (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.
- a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
- a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
- a stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment
verb
- (figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.
- To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
- (figuratively) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
- (slang, video games) To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.
- To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
- deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
- deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
noun
- (uncountable, dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) Scrapple.
- (offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
- (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
- (by extension, figurative) A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
- A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
- someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
verb
adj
verb
adj
- (mathematics, of a function) Defined on all possible inputs.
- Entire; relating to the whole of something.
- (mathematics, more generally, of a relation R on X × Y) Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.
- (mathematics, of a partial order ≤) Such that any two elements are comparable, i.e. for all a and b, either a ≤ b, or b ≤ a.
- (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
- constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
- complete in extent or degree and in every particular
noun
adj
- (slang) Wrecked; damaged; ruined; injured.
- (slang) Reprehensible; objectionable.
- (slang, automotive) Describes a 4x4 automobile that has a "lift kit", raising the body and/or frame higher than stock.
- (slang) Stimulated, excited.
- (informal) Significantly increased or expanded.
- Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.
- (slang) Under the influence of stimulants; high.
verb
adj
intj
noun
- A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
- A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.
- (dentistry) A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
- A former coin of Nepal, 128 of which were worth one mohar.
- A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.
- (India) An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.
- (South Africa, Australia) A reservoir.
- Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.
- The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure.
- female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- a metric unit of length equal to ten meters