The corpus record — Latin

destruo

tear down

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Where it lives

Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
De Baptismo 3 · 7.02/10k
Adversus Marcionem 42 · 5.07/10k
De idolatria 3 · 4.35/10k
Apotheosis 3 · 4.05/10k
Octavia 2 · 3.82/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Apologeticum 6 · 3/10k
De Monogamia 2 · 2.86/10k
Adversus Praxean 4 · 2.71/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k

Densest 12 of 56 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-strŭo — Lewis & Short

dē-strŭo, xi, ctum, 3,

I v. a., to pull or tear down any thing built (opp. construo— for syn. cf.: demolior, diruo).

I Prop. (rare but class.): navem, aedificium idem destruit facillime, qui construxit, Cic. de Sen. 20, 72; so, templum prope funditus, Suet. Vesp. 9: moenia, Verg. A. 4, 326: aras, Vulg. Exod. 34, 13 et saep.—

B Poet. transf.: crinemque manumque, i. e., to strip off crown and sceptre, Stat. Th. 12, 93.—

II Trop., to destroy, ruin, weaken (perh. not ante-Aug.): destruere ac demoliri aliquid, Liv. 34, 3: tyrannidem, Quint. 1, 10, 48: orationem (opp. illustrare), id. 11, 1, 2; cf. finitionem (opp. confirmare), id. 7, 3, 19: singulos testes (opp. exornare), id. 5, 7, 25 sq.: hostem, Tac. A. 2, 63: senem, id. H. 1, 6: multa vetustas, Ov. F. 5, 132; cf. id. M. 15, 235: dicta vultu, id. A. A. 2, 312: legem, Vulg. Rom. 3, 31.

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