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- verb Present participle of
stroy .
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Examples
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The collision would create a spectacular display, denot only stroying the star, but swallowing up its neighbors.
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At these times, silver Threads dropped through Pern's skies, de - stroying anything they touched.
Nerilka's Story McCaffrey, Anne 1986
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There are even some respects in which greater equality enlarges the rights of the well-to-do by de - stroying prejudices that prevent them doing what they are legally entitled to do, as, for example, by giving them a wider choice of marriage partners or of occu - pations.
LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968
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They got awfully mad and started 'stroying everything.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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It is true that in this horrible manner the lower nature seemed to be subjected; and it is also true that when the bodily functions were thus brought to a very low ebb, visions, or rather hallucinations, were the reward of these people; but true spirituality has never been attained by defiling or de - stroying "the temple of God," the body, and fasting may be as immoral as gluttony.
Max Heindel's Letters to Students by The Rosicrucian Fellowship 1910
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It is certain that gamesters, reduced to desperation, and on the eve of committing suicide, have conveyed into these places infernal machines with an intention of de-stroying at once their cruel plunderers and themselves.
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A Berthoud man faces felony menacing, harassment and criminal mischief charges over accusations he attacked a group of cyclists with an aluminum baseball bat, de-stroying a
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Another huge value-de stroying hurricane is about to slam America, destroying billions of dollars of value.
Latest Articles 2009
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Sir John pointed to the fords near some, argued the difficulty of de - stroying others, but above all, forsooth with due awe, argued the ease with which they could be re - paired by — an army constituted like the French. 'f
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