Create vs Destroy - What's the difference?
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To put into existence.
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, title= To be creative, imaginative.
To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
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To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre?existent title (notably a church in Rome).
(archaic) Created, resulting from creation.
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To cause destruction.
To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
To put down or euthanize.
(colloquial) To defeat soundly.
(computing) To remove data.
Destroy is a antonym of create.
In transitive terms the difference between create and destroy
is that create is to confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent title (notably a church in Rome) while destroy is to put down or euthanize.In intransitive terms the difference between create and destroy
is that create is to be creative, imaginative while destroy is to cause destruction.As an adjective create
is created, resulting from creation.create
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(creat)Well-connected Brains, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content",
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace.
Synonyms
* (to put into existence) generate * inventAntonyms
* (to put into existence) annihilate, extinguish * imitateAdjective
(en adjective)- Hearts create of duty and zeal.
External links
* * * (wikipedia "create")Anagrams
* English transitive verbs ----destroy
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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.