destruir

Borrowed from Latin dēstruere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [dəs.tɾuˈi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [des.tɾuˈiɾ]

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destruir (first-person singular present destrueixo, first-person singular preterite destruí, past participle destruït)

1. to destroy

• destrucció

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese destruir, destroir, from Latin dēstruere (“to destroy”) (probably an early borrowing), from dē + struō (“to put together”).

• Homophone: destruí (Brazil, with -r dropping)
• Hyphenation: des‧tru‧ir

destruir (first-person singular present destruo, first-person singular preterite destruí, past participle destruído)

1. (transitive) to ruin, devastate (proceed with the destruction of, cause the destruction of)
2. (transitive) to undo
3. (transitive) to break down
4. (transitive) to annihilate, exterminate
5. (transitive) to extinguish (make disappear)
6. (transitive, figuratively) to upset, disturb
7. (intransitive) to crush (reduce to nothing)

• “destruir”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “destruir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from Latin dēstruere.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /desˈtɾwiɾ/ [d̪esˈt̪ɾwiɾ], /destɾuˈiɾ/ [d̪es.t̪ɾuˈiɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: des‧truir, des‧tru‧ir

destruir (first-person singular present destruyo, first-person singular preterite destruí, past participle destruido)

1. to destroy

   Synonym: romper

• deshacer
• destrozar

• “destruir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28