Disassemble vs Destroy - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between disassemble and destroy

is that disassemble is to take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly while destroy is

to damage beyond use or repair

To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.

To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.

(computing) To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.

To damage beyond use or repair.

The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.

To cause destruction.

''Hooligans destroy unprovoked

To neutralize, undo a property or condition.

''Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate

To put down or euthanize.

Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.

(colloquial) To defeat soundly.

(computing) To remove data.

The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.

* annihilate * break * demolish * kill * ruin * waste * See also

* build * construct * create * make * raise * repair

* destroyable * destroyer * destroyer escort * destroying angel