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разрушить — meaning in English

razrushit

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English meaning

  • dash verb To run or move quickly, usually for a short distance.
  • demolish verb To tear down or destroy a building or structure, usually deliberately.
  • destroy verb To damage something so severely that it no longer exists or can't be repaired.
  • extinguish verb To put out a fire or light.
  • ruin verb To destroy, spoil, or severely damage something so it no longer works or pleases.
  • tear verb To pull something apart or make a hole in it by force.
  • wreck noun The remains of a vehicle, ship, or structure that has been destroyed or badly damaged.

Senses

разрушить is used for these senses in English:

  • bang up (transitive, informal) To damage.
  • dash (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
  • 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.
  • extinguish (figurative) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
  • ruin (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
  • ruin To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
  • tear (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.

dash — full definition

  1. verb To run or move quickly, usually for a short distance.
  2. verb To destroy or ruin something, especially hopes or plans.
  3. noun A short horizontal line used in punctuation, or a small added amount of something.

demolish — full definition

  1. verb To tear down or destroy a building or structure, usually deliberately.
  2. verb To thoroughly defeat, disprove, or destroy something such as an argument, theory, or opponent.

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