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
Murder is a synonym for destroy in help topic. In some cases you can use "Murder" instead a verb "Destroy", when it comes to topics like action, lick, end, kill. informal substitute
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- She activated a Rube Goldberg Device murder machine, which was designed to kill anyone who turned on the lights and then destroy any evidence of its own existence.
Source: Locked Room Mystery - And then he tells her that he would outright murder her before he let her destroy Mike, if for no other reason than that destroying Mike would almost certainly kill the entire population of Luna: three million people.
Source: Terminally Dependent Society -
Never My Fault: At the end, when Morningside's murder attempt is exposed and she is arrested by Gracie, she blames everyone and everything but herself.Morningside: [to Gracie] You think you saved something tonight, but all you did was to destroy the dream of young women all over this country!
Source: Film / Miss Congeniality
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