destroyed

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈstɹɔɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪd
• Hyphenation: de‧stroyed

destroyed

1. simple past and past participle of destroy

destroyed (not comparable)

1. Damaged beyond repair; ruined; wrecked; obliterated.
   • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 89:

     The dragon from under-earth,
     the nightmarish destroyer, lay destroyed as well,
     utterly without life.

2. (Ireland, informal) (particularly of a child) soiled, muddied, especially as a result of a fall or spill.

destroyed

1. 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;