Destroy and Retrieve

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

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Retrieve is an antonym for destroy.

Nearby Words: destroyed, destroyer, destroying

Retrieve verb - To get again in one's possession.

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Destroy is an antonym for retrieve in get back topic.

heart	destroy heart	retrieve heart
soul	destroy soul	retrieve soul
body	destroy body	retrieve body
time	destroy time	retrieve time
Other words: way, head, ring, evidence, car, weapon, ship, objects.

Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The Holy Grail has appeared in several key points in Humanity's development, and the player has to travel to them all to either destroy or retrieve the Grail in order to set history back on course and prevent its demise in the future.

Source: Video Game / Fate/Grand Order
In Baldur's Gate II you're asked to destroy a beholder cult called the Unseeing Eye, and are informed that it's far too powerful and you have to retrieve an artifact to destroy it.

Source: Short Cuts Make Long Delays
When they instead manage to successfully retrieve the plug and destroy the Angel anyways, he has Shinji and Asuka thrown into confinement and fired purely out of spite for being disobeyed.

Source: Fanfic / Advice and Trust

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