yıkmak — meaning in English

English meaning

• confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
• demolish verb To tear down or destroy a building or structure, usually deliberately.
• destruct verb To destroy something deliberately, especially as part of a built-in mechanism.
• ravage verb To cause severe damage or destruction to something.

Senses

yıkmak is used for these senses in English:

• confound (archaic) To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
• demolish To devour; to eat up
• destruct (transitive, nonstandard) To intentionally cause the destruction of.
• pull down (transitive) To demolish or destroy (a building etc.).
• ravage (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.

confound — full definition

1. verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
2. verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
3. verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
4. noun In statistics, a variable that distorts the apparent relationship between two other variables (a "confounding variable").

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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