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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
destroy .
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Examples
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Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the sword destroyeth and at home there is death alike.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the sword destroyeth and at home there is death alike.
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Behold, 0 Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the sword destroyeth and at home there is death alike.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 29: Lamentations of Jeremias The Challoner Revision
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Behold, 0 Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the sword destroyeth and at home there is death alike.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the sword destroyeth, and at home there is death alike.
The Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Anonymous 1610
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One who "committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding," Proverbs tells us, and "he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul" 6:32.
Michael Gilmour: Anne Bronte's Religious Imagination Michael Gilmour 2012
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One who "committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding," Proverbs tells us, and "he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul" 6:32.
Michael Gilmour: Anne Bronte's Religious Imagination Michael Gilmour 2012
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Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
The Intelligent Design Coloring Book -- and more - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sotomayor May be Wrong About Race, but She is No Racist: 2009
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These words are from her who saith that melancholy destroyeth her and that watching wasteth her; in the murk of whose night is found no light and darkness and day are the same in her sight.
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