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-destroying
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a word derived from
destroy.
Example Sentences
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Every time a new oil field is discovered, the press cheers: “Hooray, there is more fuel for the self-destroying machines!”
From Salon ● May 21, 2012
It seemed that the complex urban understanding was going through another periodic fit, obeying the logic of a self-destroying machine by Sculptor Jean Tinguely.
From Time Magazine Archive
For him the whale came to represent whatever it is that drives men to self-destroying quests.
From Time Magazine Archive
No one ever grasped this great, this comforting, this cooling, this self-destroying truth more cordially than he did.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell
Such, O Lord, would be the case didst thou not deliver us out of our own self-destroying snares.
From The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. by Isabella Graham
