Caused
Destroy
Destroy verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
Both words in one sentence
- A specific case would be the bomb that will/might/did destroy New York City, which is "revealed" to be caused by one person, then re-revealed to be actually caused by someone else, then...
Source: The Reveal / Live-Action TV - The one exception is the psychic wave caused by the crashed spaceship core, which is not only persistent but steadily gets worse until you finally destroy the core itself.
Source: Video Game / RimWorld - The only thing that caused NEXUS' defeat was the the laser satelites going unstable and buying time for you to destroy them.
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Destroy and Caused. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/caused/destroy
Caused & Destroy. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/caused/destroy>.
Destroy or Caused. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/caused/destroy.
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