Can you "destroy" a non-physical object? [closed]

Can you “destroy” a non-physical object?

Yes - there is no doubt that you can:

OED

Destroy:

5.a. To bring to nought, put an end to; to do away with, annihilate (any institution, condition, state, quality, or thing immaterial).

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xiv. 18 So destroyest thou the hope of man.

1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 193. ⁋9 Every other enjoyment malice may destroy.

1841 R. W. Emerson Intellect in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 345 Silence is a solvent that destroys personality.

c. Law. To nullify, invalidate, do away with.

1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 172 A power collateral to the land..cannot be destroyed by a fine, levied [etc.].

6. To counteract or neutralize the effect of; to render of no avail.

1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. ix. 165 These contrary Passions..do not necessarily destroy each other.

1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 61 The medicine has destroyed the malignity of the poison.

Dictionaries seem unanimous in their use of destroy as a transitive verb applied to physical objects. They also include several applications to non-physical things, so I suggest there is sufficient precedent to extend the meaning of destroy to intangibles.

Eventually our problems with money destroyed our marriage

Merriam Webster

"soul-destroying" Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.

Collins

Ruin (someone) emotionally or spiritually: "he has been determined to destroy her"

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