Alteration vs Destroy - What's the difference?
alteration | destroy |
The act of altering or making different.
* 1594 , , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity ,
The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
* 1892 , ,
To cause destruction.
To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
To put down or euthanize.
(colloquial) To defeat soundly.
(computing) To remove data.
As a noun alteration
is alteration.As a verb destroy is
to damage beyond use or repair
. alteration
English
Noun
(en noun)- …alteration , though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…
- …and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.
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*destroy
English
Verb
To damage beyond use or repair.
- The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.
- ''Hooligans destroy unprovoked
- ''Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate
- Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
- The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.