destroys
- 1Third-person singular simple present of destroy.
Heavy flooding destroys crops across the valley nearly every spring.
The acid slowly destroys the protective coating on the metal.
Note
Spelling keeps the y: because a vowel stands before it, the verb simply adds -s, unlike carries. The form serves every sense of the verb. It can take an object or stand alone (the fire destroys). Beyond physical ruin, it covers a vet who destroys a sick animal, a program that destroys data, and the informal brag that one team destroys another.
Unchecked, a wildfire destroys rather than clears.
Their striker destroys every defense he faces.
destroys is a form of destroy
destroy, verb: To damage or eliminate something completely, so that it no longer exists, can be used, or has its former effect. Full entry
- Forms
- destroydestroys he/she/itdestroying -ing formdestroyed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- destroy → destroys: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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