Destroy and Set up

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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
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Set up is an antonym for destroy.
Nearby Words: destroyed, destroyer, destroying

Set up

Set up verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.
Usage example: set up the prefabricated shed by following the instructions
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Destroy is an antonym for set up in start topic.
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  • Captain Ethan Ryer crosses it when Aina Saharin asks for a brief cease fire to get wounded soldiers out of the battlefield, he gives it... then has a GM Sniper set up and destroy the Zanzibar transport they were on.
    Source: Moral Event Horizon / Anime and Manga
  • Literature / Heretics of Dune The Chosen One/Messianic Archetype: Sheeana in the final two books, though she doesn't get to fulfill that role, being instead set up for it as a decoy to get the Honored Matres to destroy Arrakis.
    Source: Literature / Heretics of Dune
  • Film / Confessions The most triumphant example is in the end when she predicted one of the murderers would set up the bomb to destroy the school.
    Source: Film / Confessions
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