英和和英

語源

Borrowed from Old French destruire, from Late Latin *dēstrūgere, from Latin dēstruere, from dē- (“de-”) +‎ struere (“put together”). Compare destruccioun and stroyen.

発音

• IPA: /dɛˈstrui̯ən/, /dɛˈstriu̯ən/, /dɛˈstriːən/, /dɛː-/, /di-/
• IPA: /dɛˈstryː-/ (Northern, Southern, West Midland)

動詞

destroyen (third-person singular simple present destroyeth, present participle destroyinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle destroyed)

1. To destroy or ruin:
   1. To demolish, damage or ruin (an abstraction, building, or thing)

      Synonyms: merren, stroyen

   2. To devastate or ravage (a person/people or a place)
      • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 11:18, folio 121, recto, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

        ⁊ folkis ben wrooþ · ⁊ þi wraþþe cam · ⁊ tyme of deed men to be demed · ⁊ to ȝelde meede to þi ſeruauntis ⁊ pꝛophetis ⁊ halowis ⁊ dꝛedynge þi name · to ſmale ⁊ to grete / ⁊ to diſtrie hem þat coꝛrumpiden þe erþe

        And the nations were furious; then your fury came. It is time for the dead to be judged, to give rewards to your servants, prophets, saints, and those who fear your name, both small and large, and to destroy those who destroyed the Earth.

   3. To kill or murder; to end the life of.

      Synonyms: merren, stroyen

   4. To eliminate (an abstraction, disease or toxin)

      Synonym: stroyen

2. To vex, afflict, or harass (a person or people)

   Synonyms: merren, stroyen

3. (rare) To waste money or goods.

   Synonym: stroyen

   • c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “[Prologue]”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 1, recto; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:

     Some putten hem to þe plouȝ. pleıden ful selde / In settynge and sowynge. swonken ful harde. / And wonnen þat waſtours. w glotonẏe deſtruẏeþ.

     Some apply themselves to the plough; [they] very rarely played, / but worked so hard in planting and sowing, / and obtained what idlers squander through gluttony.

4. (rare) To confiscate or plunder (goods)

Conjugation

派生語

• destroyour
• stroyen

派生した語

• English: destroy
  • >? Gullah: stroy (or from stroy)
• Middle Scots: destroy
  • Scots: destroy

参照

• “dē̆stroien, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.