destroyen

• destroye, destru, destrue, destrui, destruye, destrye, distrie, dysstrye
• destrewe, distroy, distroye, distroyen, distroyne, distruy, distruyȝe, dystre, dystroye (Late Middle English)

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

• IPA^(key): /dɛːˈstrui̯ən/, /dɛːˈstriu̯ən/, /dɛːˈstriːən/, /dis-/
• IPA^(key): /dɛːˈstryː-/ (Northern, Southern, West Midland)

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)
   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.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Apocalips 11:18, page 121r, 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.
   4. To eliminate (an abstraction, disease or toxin)
2. To vex, afflict, or harass (a person or people)
3. (rare) To waste money or goods.
4. (rare) To confiscate or plunder (goods)

• destroyour
• stroyen

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

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