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Definition of Destroyed
1. Adjective. Spoiled or ruined or demolished. "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind"
Similar to: Annihilated, Exterminated, Wiped Out, Blighted, Spoilt, Blotted Out, Obliterate, Obliterated, Broken, Impoverished, Wiped Out, Burned, Burned-out, Burned-over, Burnt, Burnt-out, Demolished, Dismantled, Razed, Despoiled, Pillaged, Raped, Ravaged, Sacked, Done For, Gone, Kaput, Extinguished, Fallen, Finished, Ruined, Scorched, Shattered, Tattered, Totaled, War-torn, War-worn, Wrecked
Antonyms: Preserved
2. Adjective. Destroyed physically or morally.
Definition of Destroyed
1. Verb. (past of destroy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Destroyed
1. destroy [v] - See also: destroy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Destroyed
Literary usage of Destroyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Both post and mission were destroyed a few months later by the English captain
Argall, Brother Du Thet being killed in the attack and Fathers Biard and ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Besides this an electrolytic separation usually takes place after a time and the
conductivity of the mixture is destroyed by arcing. ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"He had commenced an active persecution of the Christians, had destroyed churches
and rebuilt heathen temples. He consented, however, to an interview with ..."
4. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"When in the sixth century before our era, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon destroyed
Tyre, Carthage broke off all further relations with the Mother Country and ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"In this town, for instance, we have a large parish (St. Mary's), the registers
of which, some fifty years ago, were totally destroyed by fire, ..."
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