Destroy
Destroy verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
Make sure
Make sure verb - Make a point of doing something; act purposefully and intentionally.
Both terms in one sentence
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Eventually, Stewie and Brian steal the record and destroy it — and to make sure he doesn't ever play it again, they destroy every copy in town.
Source: Ear Worm -
And Ben painfully finds this out in Episode 10, as they completely destroy his apartment and make sure the whole building is about to get demolished.
Source: ARG / HUNT the TRUTH -
So not only does he want to destroy the universe, he wants to make sure it never even existed in the first place.
Source: Omnicidal Maniac
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