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Class Hierarchy
destroy-44*
    no subclasses

Members Key
annihilate (fn 1; wn 1)
blight (wn 1)
blitz (wn 1)
damage (fn 1; wn 1; g 1)
decimate (wn 2)
demolish (fn 1; wn 1; g 1)
desecrate (wn 1, 2)
destroy (fn 1; wn 1, 2; g 1)
devastate (fn 1; wn 1; g 1)
disfigure (wn 1)
efface (wn 3; g 3)
exterminate (fn 1; wn 1; g 1)
extirpate (wn 1)
level (fn 1)
louse_up
maim (wn 1)
mutilate (fn 1; wn 1, 2, 3)
obliterate (fn 1; wn 4; g 1)
rack (wn 8; g 1)
ravage (wn 2)
raze (fn 1; wn 1)
ruin (fn 1; wn 1; g 1)
shatter (fn 1; wn 1, 3; g 1)
shipwreck (wn 1; g 1)
smoke (g 4)
undo (g 1, 3)
unmake
vaporize (fn 1)
waste (wn 5, 9; g 3)
wrack (wn 1)
wreck (wn 1; g 1)
 

Roles Reference
  • Agent [+int_control]
  • Patient [+concrete]
  • Instrument [+concrete]

Frames Reference Key
NP V NP
   example "The Romans destroyed the city."
   syntax Agent V Patient
   semantics cause(Agent, E) destroyed(result(E), Patient)
NP V NP PP.instrument
   example "The builders destroyed the warehouse with explosives."
   syntax Agent V Patient {with} Instrument
   semantics cause(Agent, E) use(during(E), Agent, Instrument) destroyed(result(E), Patient)
NP.instrument V NP
   example "The explosives destroyed the warehouse."
   syntax Instrument V Patient
   semantics cause(?Agent, E) use(during(E), ?Agent, Instrument) destroyed(result(E), Patient)

Comments
From: Will, Date: 2011.12.12
We should consider what to do with sentences like "The information destroyed morale."
From: Orin, Date: 2013.5.2
This class could take such verbs as beat, trounce, vanquish if the 3rd frame (Instrument V Patient) were moved to a subclass, along with most of the verbs currently here. Alternatively, a new, nearby class is needed for the verbs above.

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