Destroy and Shoot up

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

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Shoot up is an antonym for destroy.

Nearby Words: destroyed, destroyer, destroying

Shoot up verb - To rise abruptly and rapidly.

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Destroy is an antonym for shoot up in topics: elevate, increase.

Frickin' Laser Beams: Not in the novels, but in the TV series after the boys destroy the tripod with a grenade, red-painted military tripods are sent out to find them, and shoot up the countryside in an effort to flush them out.

Source: Literature / The Tripods

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