destroyest

«destroyest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you destroy — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you destroy

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«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 →

how it differs from today

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 →

tests

ending -est (stem «destroy», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Thou destroyest them that speak falsehood; the LORD abhorreth the man of blood and of deceit.
• The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «destroyest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.