(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.
Unwork
Definition:
(v. t.) To undo or destroy, as work previously done.
Example Sentences:
(1) Critics argue that the idea is an expensive and probably unworkable smokescreen for continued reliance on fossil fuels.
(2) This proposal would make filing their tax returns almost unworkable.
(3) Holding intermediaries responsible for determining what information is in the public interest is dangerous and unworkable: more than 100 billion searches occur each month on Google alone, which could in theory be subject to review-on-demand for adequacy and relevance, rather than accuracy or lawfulness.
(4) So while we will fiercely oppose policies that hit working people, and we will expose policies that are unworkable, where the government comes forward with ideas that are sensible we will be prepared to look at them.” Labour, said Harman, would be a different kind of opposition, “so there are measures in the budget which we will give serious consideration to”.
(5) It's unworkable, unpoliceable and crazy to even consider.
(6) They went on: "A number of its recommendations are unworkable and it gives politicians an unacceptable degree of interference in the regulation of the press."
(7) The agreement that emerged on Monday will not solve the country’s problems and is likely to prove totally unworkable.
(8) But we also face the risk that the forces of opposition are correct: that these policies are electoral anathema, or unworkable, or both.
(9) Clegg denied his plans were so expensive that they were unworkable, pointing out that the government already spent £6bn annually on early years support.
(10) "Judging additionality has turned out to be unknowable and unworkable.
(11) It is argued that the definition is an unworkable concept because patients with underlying immunosuppression disorders such as AIDs can not be easily distinguished from chronic disease patients; i.e., pulmonary tuberculosis, renal failure, uncontrolled diabetes, or diarrhea with weight loss.
(12) It’s pretty clear that plan A is unworkable, and yet nobody seems to be working on a plan B at all.
(13) Most are considered unworkable at present – with the exception of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage.
(14) But for all the tough talk, there were immediate signs that Black's threats could prove to be unworkable – and antagonise other publishers who remain sceptical about a reform process led by somebody at the heart of the existing system of self-regulation, which has been discredited by the phone-hacking scandal.
(15) This has left them all but unworkable, and in many cases, unconstitutional.
(16) He made the comments as George Osborne said a currency union based on the pound would be "unworkable" in the wake of analysis by the Bank of England.
(17) Serious doubts about the project's future were confirmed this year when the cross-party House of Commons public accounts committee said it was "unworkable" and that, despite huge investment, had failed to deliver.
(18) David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation, describes the bedroom tax as "an unfair, unworkable policy that should be repealed".
(19) But the bill has been widely lambasted by legal and pharmacological authorities as being irrational and unworkable.
(20) "This vote gives MPs a chance to show where they stand and vote to repeal this unjust and unworkable policy," she said.