Clues for the word "DESTROY"
We've had 39 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 72 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on December 17, 2025.
Definition of destroy
- v. t. - To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
- v. t. - To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume.
- v. t. - To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill.
Referring Clues
- Partner of search
- Lay waste to
- Trash
- Total
- Totally trash
- Wreck
- Cream
- Lay waste
- Ruin
- Ruin
- Reduce to smithereens
- Undo
- Annihilate
- Trounce
- Demolish
- Devastate
- Smash to pieces
- Wreck completely
- Reduce to useless
- Torpedo
- Smash
- Level
- Wipe off the map
- Raze
- Completely ruin
- Screen man who rides again bearing old dispatch
- Ruin of the French city of Paris
- Wipe out a boy's name for Ilium
- Kill
- Eliminate your lot with exchange of constituents of iron
- Name the deviant Tory to ruin
- Name the city to lay waste!
- Knock down
- I leave old date for old city ruin
- Put down Dorset riot at the end of the day
- What Shiva would do to some Franco-Hellenic battleground
- Ruin half of Rhodes and Ilium
- Obliterate
- Dispose of what may be stored at the eye centre
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - December 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 21, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 19, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 16, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 05, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 16, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - January 02, 2018
- New York Times - December 17, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - December 05, 2017
- Mirror Classic - December 01, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 23, 2017
- New York Times - October 18, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - September 20, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 10, 2017
- Daily Quick - May 02, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 26, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - March 29, 2017
- And in 42 more crossword puzzles...