(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.
Fordo
Definition:
(v. i.) To destroy; to undo; to ruin.
(v. i.) To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
Example Sentences:
(1) In exchange the P5+1 wanted Iran to stop enriching uranium to 19.75% (medium enriched uranium), export all such material, halt operations at the Fordo plant and allow IAEA inspectors to visit sensitive military sites.
(2) Two other unresolved issues are Iran’s Fordo underground enrichment site and the nearly built Arak nuclear reactor .
(3) The Kayhan, which is close to Iran's ruling clerics, said engineers had begun injecting uranium gas into sophisticated centrifuges at the Fordo facility near the city of Qom.
(4) In defiance of the western pressure, Iran this week began uranium enrichment at Fordo facility, near the holy city of Qom, in an underground, bunker-like site built for protection against possible air strikes.
(5) He said the Fordo facility was built underground because of the threat of attack by Israel and the US.
(6) Netanyahu asserted that Iran must halt all uranium enrichment, remove enriched uranium from the country, dismantle the Fordo nuclear plant and stop "the plutonium track" to a nuclear weapon.
(7) The US, along with Britain, France and Germany, claims that discovery of the Fordo site puts Iran in breach of its international treaty obligations.
(8) The IAEA sent inspectors to the Fordo site late last month but today indicated it is to seek clarification on several issues, in particular how long the Fordo site had been planned.
(9) The Federation of American Scientists, which tracks nuclear proliferation, said today: "Of course, there is the question of whether Fordo is simply the only 'secret' facility that we know about.
(10) The US and its five allies in the talks want to repurpose Fordo to a non-enrichment function because it is believed impervious to a military attack from the air.
(11) Abbasi was quoted as saying: "The Fordo facility, like Natanz, has been designed and built underground.
(12) One diplomat suggested that Washington may be emphasising the issue in order to satisfy the Israelis but that the group may be prepared to settle for an agreement to freeze the number of centrifuges at Fordo, which are believed to be too few to produce weapons-grade uranium at a pace sufficient to develop a bomb in the foreseeable future.
(13) Iran says enrichment to nearly 20% will be carried out at Fordo.
(14) Built next to a military complex, Fordo was long kept secret and only acknowledged by Iran after it was identified by western intelligence agencies in September 2009.
(15) Iran has said it will not close the Fordo facility nor surrender enriched uranium.
(16) It is not clear that Washington can carry all of the P5+1 in pressing the demand for Fordo to be dismantled, particularly with Russia and China prepared to give Tehran room for manoeuvre.
(17) Israel's defence minister, Ehud Barak, made little mention of the Fordo facility itself and instead dwelled on the uranium on Sunday.
(18) The International Atomic Energy Agency, in a report published today, said the previously secret site at Fordo was in "an advanced state of construction" and was scheduled to start up in 2011.
(19) Diplomats say Iran will be pressed by the permanent UN security council members plus Germany, known as the P5+1, to shut its underground nuclear facility at Fordo, to stop enriching uranium to 20%, and to hand over the estimated 100kg of uranium already enriched to that level.
(20) Iran's nuclear chief, Fereidoun Abbasi, said on Saturday that his country would soon begin enrichment at Fordo.