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.
self-destroyed
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a word derived from
destroy.
Example Sentences
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Yet her portrait of this womanizing, "self-destroyed escapologist" is softened by her high regard for his lush language.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2016
Mortals are not immortals 476:6 Error, urged to its final limits, is self-destroyed.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
The counterfeit forces 293:21 There is no vapid fury of mortal mind - expressed in earthquake, wind, wave, lightning, fire, bestial ferocity - and this so-called mind is self-destroyed.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
If a dream ceases, it 346:21 is self-destroyed, and the terror is over.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
Error self-destroyed 251:1 Error is not real, hence it is not more imperative as it hastens towards self-destruction.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
