Crossword-Solution: DESTROYS 8 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Shipwrecks 1 answer
Smashes to smithereens 2 answers
Beats the tar out of 2 answers
Completely wrecks 2 answers
Brings to ruin 3 answers
Lays low 4 answers
Tears to pieces 6 answers
Obliterates 8 answers
Wrecks 10 answers
Totals 14 answers
Wipes (out) 14 answers
ruins 44 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CAZEEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DESTROYS (5)

Such was the splendour; and the Tempter now His invitation earnestly renewed:— “What doubts the Son of God to sit and eat? These are not fruits forbidden; no interdict Defends the touching of these viands pure; 370 Their taste no knowledge works, at least of evil, But life preserves, destroys life’s enemy, Hunger, with sweet restorative delight.
Paradise Regained John Milton 1993
Machiavelli was no less honest when he honored the diabolical force of Caesar Borgia than Carlyle was when at different times he extolled the strong man who destroys liberty in creating order.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Let's look at the medical analogy to the dreaded computer virus that indiscriminately attacks and destroys any computer with which it comes in contact.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
And what numberless and powerful causes tend to destroy these rare natures! What causes? In the first place there are their own virtues, their courage, temperance, and the rest of them, every one of which praise worthy qualities (and this is a most singular circumstance) destroys and distracts from philosophy the soul which is the possessor of them.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
But to let an innocent man be ruined; to keep a secret which destroys his character for life—Oh, good God, it’s too horrible! I can’t bear it!” My aunt half rose from her chair, then suddenly sat down again.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994

Quotes with DESTROYS (3)

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
Paulo Coelho
Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.
E.M. Forster Howards End
TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at…
Howard Zinn
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1997–2025).