destroy
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
To render target data recovery infeasible and media unusable for the storage of data.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Senses
NERC CIP-011-2 (Information Protection) v2
To put an end to the existence of something by attacking, damaging, or demolishing.
Wordset Dictionary
defeat soundly
Wordset Dictionary
put (an animal) to death
Wordset Dictionary
destroy completely
Wordset Dictionary
do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
Classifications
Cognitive
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Variants
- synonym
- demolishdestructput downruin
- pasttense
- destroyed
- presentparticiple
- destroying
- thirdpersonsingular
- destroys
- pastparticiple
- destroyed