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# destroyest

verb, old form used with thou

«destroyest» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

«destroyest» means «you destroy», a form of «destroy»: To destroy something means to damage it so badly that it is ruined or no longer exists. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/destroyest/#m1)

### Then and now

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou destroyest» = «you destroy».

### Examples

- "Wretched son! thou destroyest not only thyself but thy father. (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/destroyest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you destroy.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «destroyest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/destroyest/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«destroyest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/destroyest.html) on Mova free.