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
Fell and destroy are semantically related. in demolish topic. In some cases you can use "Fell" instead a verb "Destroy".
Fell
Fell verb - To deprive of life.
Usage example: the quest for a cure for malaria, the disease that felled so many during the digging of the Panama Canal
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Apocalyptic Montage: When Dodge and Banyan speculate on what happen if Neutro fell into the wrong hands, he could do things like destroy the Transatlantic cable or destroy the White House.
Source: Comic Book / Neutro - Even knowing he had to destroy it, he could not, instead Gollum stole it and then fell into the fires of Mount Doom, thus destroying it.
Source: Artifact Domination - It isn't Gameplay and Story Segregation either—her shots will regularly destroy trees outright and fell ones that they graze.
Source: Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke
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