Destroy and Pop

Destroy

Destroy verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.

Pop and destroy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pop" instead a verb "Destroy".

Nearby Words: destroyed, destroyer, destroying

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

Destroy and pop are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Destroy" instead a verb "Pop".

Nearby Words: popped, popping, poping, poped

Common collocations

people destroy people pop people
time destroy time pop time
machine destroy machine pop machine
head destroy head pop head
Other words: enemies.

Both words in one sentence

  • Scary Jack-in-the-Box 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.
  • Video Game / Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge 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.
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