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be destroyed for
verb
To damage beyond use or repair.
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If such a human being can rightfully be destroyed for this purpose, why not a human being at any other stage of his or her existence?
A human being at his or her beginning can rightfully be destroyed for a hoped-for benefit to other human beings.
Then we're told some will be destroyed for "the day after".
" 'This girl will be destroyed for the rest of her life!' And my daughter just said: 'I don't care.
No homes, schools or clinics would be destroyed for the proposedmining operation to proceed," the statement said.
Critics grumbled that a good truck business was about to be destroyed for the sake of an ill-conceived vanity project.
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I was destroyed for about 20 seconds.
Now she has been destroyed for a similar crime.
The Cypriot government's credit would have been destroyed for little benefit.
Vast areas of vegetation are being destroyed for lines of white powder.
"'My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,"' he said, quoting the Bible.
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