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Definition of Destroying
1. destroy [v] - See also: destroy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Destroying
Literary usage of Destroying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
""Destroying Angels," as I understand it, are Latter-Day Saints who are set ...
I had heard a deal about these Mormon Destroying Angels and the dark and ..."
2. Phytopathology by American Phytopathological Society (1917)
"In the present work an attempt was made to prepare a synthetic medium which would
support a growth of wood-destroying fungi at least a» good as that on the ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley, William Wait, William Blackstone (1875)
"By various enactments (k) any person hindering the exportation of corn by violence
or destroying granaries or grain intended for exportation, ..."
4. The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura (1906)
"The past may well look with pity at the poverty of our civilisation; the future
will laugh at the barrenness of our art. We are destroying art in destroying ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"... removed in the manner prohibited by the law; that is, by some per- eon, without
defacing and destroying the same at the time of such removal. ..."
6. An Abridgment of the Law of Nisi Prius by William Selwyn (1845)
"I. Of the Right of taking and destroying the Game at Common Law, and of the Stat.
1 &f 2 Will. IV. c. 32, p. 90S. II. Of the Appointment and Authority of ..."
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