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# destroyest

«destroyest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you destroy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you destroy

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«destroyest» means «you destroy», a form of «destroy»: To destroy something means to damage it so badly that it is ruined or no longer exists. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/destroyest/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou destroyest» = «you destroy».

### examples

- "Wretched son! thou destroyest not only thyself but thy father. (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/destroyest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «destroy», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Thou destroyest them that speak falsehood; the LORD abhorreth the man of blood and of deceit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.47/)
- [The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.360/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «destroyest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/destroyest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.