Synonyms for destroys
de·stroys

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1. List of paraphrases for "destroys":

   destroyed, demolishes, destroy, devastates, batters

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1. Jake Gyllenhaal:

   The story is about a guy who uses his rage to get great success, that same rage destroys his whole life. Throughout the film and his journey, he has to learn how to fight -- not only in the ring but in life without rage.

2. Mike DeWine:

   The charges Manley faces are not uncommon when a witness destroys such a device used in a government investigation.

3. Pope Francis:

   An unfettered pursuit of money rules. The service of the common good is left behind, once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity.

4. Marcus Tullius Cicero:

   For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity

5. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   I like a cat because it does not disguise its selfishness with any flattering hypocrisies. Its attachment is not to yourself, but to your house. Let it but have food, and a warm lair among the embers, and it heeds not at whose expense. Then it has the spirit to resent aggression. You shall beat your dog, and he will fawn upon you; but a cat never forgives : it has no tender mercies, and it torments before it destroys its prey.