Destroy and Infect

Destroy

Destroy verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.

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Infect and destroy are semantically related in taint topic. In some cases you can use "Infect" instead a verb "Destroy".

Nearby Words: destroyed, destroyer, destroying

Infect

Infect verb - Contaminate with a disease or microorganism.

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Synonyms for Infect

Destroy and infect are semantically related in activity topic. Sometimes you can use "Destroy" instead a verb "Infect", if it concerns topics such as taint.

Nearby Words: infection, infective, infecting

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Common collocations

humanity	destroy humanity	infect humanity
life	destroy life	infect life
people	destroy people	infect people
body	destroy body	infect body
Other words: system, universe, earth, world, planet, anyone, town, city, enemy, everyone, enemies, planets.

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They become twisted, mindless things whose only purpose and directive is to infect and destroy as many healthy Programs as possible.

Source: Plague Zombie
Whereas he originally just wanted to destroy Zion, his new goal is to infect and destroy everything, which would also destroy him.

Source: Omnicidal Maniac
However, he draws the line at Carla Radames' plan to infect and destroy the entire world.

Source: Even Evil Has Standards / Video Games

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