Disfigure vs Destroy - What's the difference?
disfigure | destroy | Related terms |
Change the appearance of something/someone to the negative.
To cause destruction.
To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
To put down or euthanize.
(colloquial) To defeat soundly.
(computing) To remove data.
Disfigure is a related term of destroy.
As verbs the difference between disfigure and destroy
is that disfigure is change the appearance of something/someone to the negative while destroy isto damage beyond use or repair
. disfigure
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Verb
(disfigur)- The burnings disfigured his face.
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.