DESTROYED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does destroyed mean? 

• DESTROYED (adjective)
  The adjective DESTROYED has 2 senses:

1. spoiled or ruined or demolished

2. destroyed physically or morally

  Familiarity information: DESTROYED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESTROYED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spoiled or ruined or demolished

Context example:

Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind

Similar:

annihilated; exterminated; wiped out (destroyed completely)

wrecked (destroyed in an accident)

war-torn; war-worn (laid waste by war)

totaled (used of automobiles; completely demolished)

shattered; tattered (ruined or disrupted)

scorched (having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy)

finished; ruined (brought to ruin)

fallen (having fallen in or collapsed)

extinguished (of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement)

done for; gone; kaput (destroyed or killed)

despoiled; pillaged; raped; ravaged; sacked (having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence)

demolished; dismantled; razed (torn down and broken up)

burned; burned-out; burned-over; burnt; burnt-out (destroyed or badly damaged by fire)

broken; impoverished; wiped out (destroyed financially)

blotted out; obliterate; obliterated (reduced to nothingness)

blighted; spoilt (affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity)

Also:

damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)

Antonym:

preserved (kept intact or in a particular condition)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Destroyed physically or morally

Synonyms:

destroyed; ruined

Similar:

lost (spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed)

 Context examples 

After a patient’s bone marrow is destroyed by treatment with whole body irradiation or chemotherapy, these cells are injected back into the patient to help rebuild bone marrow.

(autologous expanded mesenchymal stem cells OTI-010, NCI Dictionary)

A method of replacing immature blood-forming cells that were destroyed by treatment with anticancer drugs.

(Autologous Stem Cell Rescue, NCI Dictionary)

A rare disease in which certain cells in the intestine are destroyed by a patient’s immune system.

(Autoimmune enteropathy, NCI Dictionary)

But scientists do not completely understand how this ancient organic matter is eventually destroyed.

(Ancient molecules from the sea likely burst into the air from ocean waves, National Science Foundation)

Dust is distributed throughout the nebula, but there is a significant drop in the amount of dust at the rim of the inner shell, where it seems that it is being destroyed.

(The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula, ESO)

The station was destroyed in a fire on February 25, 2012.

(Brazil ship off to Antarctica for research support, Agência Brasil)

A procedure to replace bone marrow that has been destroyed by treatment with high doses of anticancer drugs or radiation.

(Bone Marrow Transplantation, NCI Dictionary)

Treatment in which stem cells are induced to differentiate into the specific cell type required to repair damaged or destroyed cells or tissues.

(Cell-based therapies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The active ingredient in a drug used to treat chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (a condition in which platelets are destroyed by the immune system).

(Eltrombopag, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used to treat chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (a condition in which platelets are destroyed by the immune system).

(Eltrombopag olamine, NCI Dictionary)