<def-root>A <fen>Destroyer</fen> (a conscious entity) or <fen>Cause</fen> (an event, or an entity involved in such an event) affects the <fen>Patient</fen> negatively so that the <fen>Patient</fen> no longer exists. <ex><fex name="Cause">An asteroid</fex> <t>obliterated</t> <fex name="Patient">the dinosaurs</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The conscious entity, generally a person, that performs the intentional action that results in the <fen>Patient</fen>'s destruction. <ex><fex name="Agt">Who</fex> can <t>unmake</t> the ring?</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The degree to which the destruction is completed.
<ex>I <t>destroyed</t> all signs of our presence <fex name="Degr">completely</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>An entity directed by the <fen>Destroyer</fen> that interacts with a <fen>Patient</fen> to accomplish the <fen>Patient</fen>'s destruction. </def-root>
<def-root>Any description of the process of destruction which is not covered by more specific FEs, including epistemic modification (<ment>probably, presumably, mysteriously</ment>), secondary effects (<ment>quietly, loudly</ment>), and general descriptions comparing events (<ment>the same way</ment>). It may also indicate salient characteristics of the <fen>Destroyer</fen> that also affect the action (<ment>presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully</ment>). </def-root>
<def-root>An intentional action performed by the <fen>Destroyer</fen> that accomplishes the destruction.
<ex>Samptu <t>obliterated</t> the land of Abde <fex name="Mns">with a great flood</fex>, leaving only the sea.</ex> </def-root>
<def-root>This FE identifies the place where the <fen>Destroyer</fen> destroys the <fen>Patient</fen>. </def-root>
<def-root>This FE identifies the purpose for which a <fen>Destroyer</fen> causes the destruction of the <fen>Patient</fen>. <ex>We <t>laid</t> <t>waste</t> to Hattusas <fex name="Purp">to subjugate them, not to vex them</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>A state of affairs that the <fen>Destroyer</fen> is responding to in destroying the <fen>Undergoer</fen>.
<ex>He <t>razed</t> the goddess's temple <fex name="Explanation">out of sheer anger</fex>.</ex>
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<def-root>This FE identifies the <fen>Result</fen> of an event on the <fen>Patient</fen>. This FE is very rare in this frame, and since the <fen>Patient</fen> is destroyed by this process, the <fen>Result</fen> is generally constrained to indicate the <fen>Patient</fen> 's resulting inexistence. <ex>All of the buildings had been <t>razed</t> <fex name="Result">to nothing</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The part of the <fen>Patient</fen> which is directly affected by the destruction. <ex>The village was <t>devastated</t> <fex name="Subr">from the north end to the banks of the Neva</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>This FE identifies the time when the <fen>Destroyer</fen> destroys the <fen>Patient</fen>.</def-root>
<def-root>The entity which is destroyed by the <fen>Destroyer</fen>. <ex>Who can <t>unmake</t> <fex name="Patient">the ring</fex>?</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The event or entity which is responsible for the destruction of the <fen>Patient</fen>. <ex><fex name="Cause">The subsequent explosions</fex> <t>leveled</t> most downtown office buildings.</ex> <ex><fex name="Cause">Tornados</fex> <t>vaporized</t> this town a few decades back.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The category in which the <fen>Patient</fen> is destroyed. </def-root>
<def-root>How often the <fen>Cause</fen> or <fen>Destroyer</fen> destroys the <fen>Patient</fen>.</def-root>
<def-root>This FE denotes an event that occurs or state of affairs that holds at a time that includes the time during which the event or state of affairs reported by the target occurs and of which it is taken to be a part.</def-root>
<def-root>This FE describes a participant of the state of affairs introduced by the target as being in some state during the action. </def-root>
<def-root><fen>Medium</fen> expresses the <fen>Medium</fen> in which the <fen>Patient</fen> is destroyed by the <fen>Cause</fen> or <fen>Destroyer</fen>. This FE is generally used in Metaphorical uses of this frame. <ex>West <t>demolished</t> Kraft's arguments <fex name="Med">in his most recent essay</fex>.</ex></def-root>
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FN: to destroy (buildings, etc.), esp. by fire
FN: to undo the action of making (as of a law); to destroy the structure of something
COD: demolish (a building or town).
FN: to exert force so as to cause something to cease to exist
COD: destroy utterly; wipe out.
FN: the complete destruction of something so that nothing can be found where it once was
FN: an event of destroying
COD: destroy or ruin.
FN: the destruction of large parts of "Floods caused the devastation of most of the fall crops."
FN: destroy utterly (as if) by turning into vapor.
COD: destroy utterly.
FN: to destroy completely
FN: the deliberate destruction of buildings, farms, etc., as by an army or force of nature
FN: destroy a fixed structure by crushing
FN: the act of destroying or dismantling, esp. of buildings
COD: take to pieces.
FN: the act of taking something apart.
COD: causing destruction.
FN: to destroy with explosives
FN: incapacitate and destroy.
FN: destroy with an explosion or similar violent means.
FN: A Destroyer causes an Undergoer to become unusable.