destroy
verb (used with object)
to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
undestroyed
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a word derived from
destroy.
Example Sentences
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"We can even say many settlements were flattened - some settlements have almost no undestroyed buildings left."
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2022
It’s possible Cap went back in time, lived out his life in an alternate timeline, then warped back as an old man, bringing along an undestroyed shield, to the main reality.
From The Verge ● May 9, 2019
To her own plentiful stores she has added the undestroyed stocks of the conquered territories.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a pious hope that this undestroyed industrial giant can be kept manacled.
From Time Magazine Archive
At any rate, I had long since determined to search what parish records might remain undestroyed in a land where destruction had reigned for four terrible years.
From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
