niszczyć — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
niszczyć is used for these senses in English:
- demolish To devour; to eat up
- destroy (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- do for (transitive, British) To doom; to bring about the demise of someone; to injure or harm someone.
- knock out (transitive, idiomatic) To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
- ravage (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
- take out (idiom, slang) To kill or destroy.
- wear out To cause (something) to become damaged, useless, or ineffective through continued use, especially hard, heavy, or careless use.
- wipe out (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
demolish — full definition
- verb To tear down or destroy a building or structure, usually deliberately.
- verb To thoroughly defeat, disprove, or destroy something such as an argument, theory, or opponent.
destroy — full definition
- verb To damage something so severely that it no longer exists or can't be repaired.
- verb To defeat someone completely and overwhelmingly.
- verb To kill an animal deliberately, usually for humane or safety reasons.