Verb

• S: (v) plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray (steal goods; take as spoils) "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
• S: (v) rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder (destroy and strip of its possession) "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) destroy, ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably) "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"
• S: (v) burn, fire, burn down (destroy by fire) "They burned the house and his diaries"
• S: (v) lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly) "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
• S: (v) harry, ravage (make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes)
• S: (v) break (find a flaw in) "break an alibi"; "break down a proof"
• S: (v) break, bust (ruin completely) "He busted my radio!"
• S: (v) vandalize, vandalise (destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism) "vandalize the park"
• S: (v) do a job on (destroy completely or make ugly or useless) "The dog did a job on my pillow"; "The seamstress did a job on my wedding gown"
• S: (v) subvert (destroy completely) "we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis"
• S: (v) get (overcome or destroy) "The ice storm got my hibiscus"; "the cat got the goldfish"
• S: (v) devour (destroy completely) "Fire had devoured our home"
• S: (v) rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder (destroy and strip of its possession) "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
• S: (v) explode (destroy by exploding) "The enemy exploded the bridge"
• S: (v) consume (destroy completely) "The fire consumed the building"
• S: (v) shipwreck (destroy a ship) "The vessel was shipwrecked"
• S: (v) bust up, wreck, wrack (smash or break forcefully) "The kid busted up the car"
• S: (v) kick in, kick down (open violently) "kick in the doors"
• S: (v) wash out (wear or destroy by the force of water) "The hail storms had washed out the bridges"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame

Adjective

• S: (adj) despoiled, pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked (having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence) "the raped countryside"