Destroy
Destroy verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
Pattern
Common collocations
| career | destroy career | pattern career |
Both words in one sentence
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There is one decision in the game which doesn't have such an obvious solution (whether to let the JBA destroy the cargo ship), but even that fits the pattern when the Prima official Strategy Guide recommends that the player lets them destroy it.
Source: Video Game / Splinter Cell -
All of these explode, regardless of what particular power used to destroy them; freezing or slicing cardboard boxes cause the same pattern of scattered pieces as hitting them with a rocket.
Source: Made of Explodium - Many of these follow a pattern: Get to the place you're defending, survive the infantry attacks until the enemies deploy armor and/or heavy weapons, then destroy the heavies to win the battle.
Source: Hold the Line
Cite this Source
Pattern and Destroy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 20, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/destroy/pattern
Destroy & Pattern. N.p., 2016. Web. 20 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/destroy/pattern>.
Pattern or Destroy. 2016. Accessed July 20, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/destroy/pattern.
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