Destroy and Make up

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Destroy

Destroy verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
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Make up is an antonym for destroy.
Nearby Words: destroyed, destroyer, destroying

Make up

Make up verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.
Usage example: we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked “some assembly required”
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Destroy is an antonym for make up.
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  • Trixie returns and threatens to destroy Ponyville with an Ursa Major before Rainbow can make up her mind.
    Source: Fan Fic / Justice League of Equestria
  • Franchise / Crash Bandicoot Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001) — Intending to make up for his past failures, Cortex creates a secret weapon to destroy Crash — a bandicoot named Crunch.
    Source: Franchise / Crash Bandicoot
  • When the Clock Strikes Twelve The Time Lord Fairy Tales version of "Cinderella" has her mysteriously instructed by a certain bowtie-wearing benefactor to not flee at midnight, but activate his sonic screwdriver...to destroy the vampires that make up the royal court.
    Source: When the Clock Strikes Twelve
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