Destroy
Destroy verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
Pop
Pop verb - To cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive.
Usage example: popping popcorn over a campfire
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The professor demonstrates how accidents could be "a little scary" by turning the crank, with the onlooking agents presumably thinking a giant clown will pop out and destroy the room.
Source: Scary Jack-in-the-Box -
Their attacks damage the Arcade mech, but it's up to the player to destroy the Mecha-Mooks that pop out of it.
- It even got to the point once where they actually did destroy all the world's evil, only for a new evil to pop up in the first place they fought.
Source: As Long as There Is Evil
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