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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈstɹɔɪd/
- Rhymes: -ɔɪd
- Hyphenation: de‧stroyed
Verb
destroyed
- simple past and past participle of destroy
Adjective
destroyed (not comparable)
- (Ireland, informal) (particularly of a child) soiled, muddied, especially as a result of a fall or spill.
Middle English
Verb
destroyed
- past participle of destroyen
1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Launcelot and Guinevere]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 449, recto, lines 27–29:So thys ſeaſon hit be felle in the moneth : of may a grete angur and vnhappy that ſtynted nat tylle þͤ floure of chyvalry of the worlde was deſtroyed and ſlayne- So in this season, as in the month of May, it befell a great anger and unhap that stinted not till the flower of chivalry of all the world was destroyed and slain;