(v. t.) To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
(v. t.) To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume.
(v. t.) To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill.
Example Sentences:
(1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(2) Whereas the growth and division of normal cells is carefully regulated to meet the needs of the body, tumor cells proliferate autonomously and continually, eventually interfering with and destroying the functions of normal tissue.
(3) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(4) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(5) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(6) Mortality rates naturally vary considerably, but in earthquakes, for example, the number of deaths per 100 houses destroyed can give an indication of the adequacy of building techniques.
(7) Dialyzed crude enzyme extracts from yeast cells were found to destroy diacetyl in a manner quite similar to that of diacetyl reductase from Aerobacter aerogenes, and both the bacterial and the yeast extracts were stimulated significantly by the addition of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH).
(8) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
(9) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(10) We report that kainic acid lesions of the posterior corpus striatum, which preferentially spare fibers of passage while destroying striatopallidal neurons, produce a stimulus-sensitive movement pattern in rats that has a highly specific sensory trigger.
(11) Spinal cord stimulation would suppress at least the dorsal horn neurons which were destroyed by various kinds of diseases.
(12) To overcome these problems we developed methotrexate bone cement (MTX-Palacos) with the aim to obtain high local concentrations of methotrexate in order to destroy remaining tumor cells and avoid systemic side effects.
(13) Liposomes of PC10 rapidly destroyed sperm motility while PC12 acrosome-reacted sperm remained motile for several h. Liposomes of PC with greater than or equal to 14-carbon fatty acyl chains had no effect on the AR or motility of sperm.
(14) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
(15) Surgery of destroyed joints in the hand and wrist in the arthritic patient can be added to the armamentarium of the reconstructive arthritis surgeon.
(16) It is that beautiful moment when the original Metamorphosis is destroyed so that it can be refashioned for a global community of readers in dire need of new forms of storytelling.
(17) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(18) A frameshift mutation in the mouse mammary tumor virus myc gene destroyed the dexamethasone stimulation of mr1, indicating that c-myc protein is required for the effect.
(19) While cells that were treated with antibody were unable to aggregate because of the inability to destroy cAMP, they aggregated normally when washed free of antibody.
(20) It would have to be destroyed four and a half years after initial collection.
Dismantle
Definition:
(v. t.) To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
(v. t.) To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship.
(v. t.) To disable; to render useless.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's this alliance and this record that postliberalism is trying to dismantle.
(2) The administration is also attacked for endangering America with its proposals to dismantle the prison at Guantánamo Bay.
(3) This review concentrates on an aspect of developmental cell death that has tended to be neglected, the manner in which the cells are dismantled.
(4) Decades of steady, albeit slow, progress on equality is being dismantled, as cuts to women's jobs and the benefits and services they rely on, turn back time on women's equality."
(5) The Bernabéu blockade was dismantled, by necessity, in favour of an approach far closer the sacred Real tradition.
(6) If the Coalition keeps going down the current path, its most enduring achievement will be the dismantlement of the equity-based federal funding settlement achieved under Whitlam and the dawn of a new era of evidence-less policy making.
(7) In April Egypt's interior minister, General Habib al-Adly, was described in US cables as being behind the dismantling of a Hezbollah cell in Sinai as well as "steps to disrupt the flow of Iranian-supplied arms from Sudan through Egypt to Gaza".
(8) The Anglican communion was given substance only by the British empire and next week’s meeting will be one of the final moments in the dismantling of the empire, or of the further process of forgetting that it ever mattered.
(9) When the old BBC governors – a system of governance that essentially dated back to 1922 – was dismantled in 2006 the outcry that there might be something quickly nicknamed Ofbeeb was deafening.
(10) Ms Le Pen’s party is intent on dismantling the EU , on setting up protectionist barriers, stigmatising Muslims and upending traditional western alliances.
(11) This would blow their chance to dismantle the signature policy achievement of the Obama presidency, leaving them facing the wrath of constituents and potential trouble at the ballot box.
(12) After weeks of unwashed silence he's finally dismantled his crisis-beard and returned his woollen catastrophe-hat to the BBC's Break In Case Of Homelessness box.
(13) We previously have shown that in BFA-treated rat pancreatic lobules, there is no detectable relocation of Golgi proteins to the ER and, although Golgi cisternae are rapidly dismantled, clusters of small smooth vesicles consisting of both bona fide Golgi remnants and associated vesicular carriers persist even with prolonged BFA exposure.
(14) Dismantling the reigning champions would normally serve as a statement of intent at Chelsea, though this was all too easy.
(15) The Times quoted an anonymous official familiar with the group saying its report “says we can’t dismantle these programs, but we need to change the way almost all of them operate”.
(16) The Lib Dem rebels want Clegg to go further and support dismantling the NHS's internal market through which different parts of the system commission and provide services.
(17) That does not mean disregarding or dismantling the UN guiding principles.
(18) 9.11pm BST A commander of the Free Syrian Army, a key US ally among the opposition, has echoed and magnified Idris' stated opposition to the Russian proposal for dismantling the regime's chemical weapons.
(19) Staff succeeded despite some seemingly impossible contradictions: John Cardinal O'Connor of the Archdiocese of New York, who has been opposed to the life-styles of most of the people who would use the unit (gays and IV abusers) urged the creation of the unit; St. Clare's had been bankrupt and virtually dismantled just a few years earlier; and the hospital did not have the financial resources, facilities, or AIDS patient caseload of the larger, well-known New York medical institutions.
(20) Charlie Kronick, senior energy adviser for Greenpeace, said the changes in tax relating to the dismantling of platforms meant rich oil companies were being subsidised by the under-pressure taxpayer.