Beat
Destroy
Destroy verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
Usage example: their poor scores on the final exam destroyed any chance they might have had to pass the course
Beat and destroy are semantically related in defeat topic. Sometimes you can use "Beat" instead a verb "Destroy", if it concerns topics such as kill.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- You beat and destroy a Minecrawler Pilot as the very first boss of this game.
Source: Degraded Boss -
Later, when the guy orders him to kill Lois, Clark is able to beat him, destroy the evidence and turn the guy over to the cops.
Source: To Be Lawful or Good - Not only does he have four of them, but each of them are segmented — you will need to destroy all the segments to beat one, so you might as well go for his head and kill him off with your Smart Bomb.
Source: Cognizant Limbs
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