eyðileggja

Icelandic

Etymology

Compound of eyði (“deserted, abandoned”) +‎ leggja (“to lay, put”). Compare leggja í eyði (“to desert, abandon”).

Verb

eyðileggja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative eyðilagði, supine eyðilagt)

1. to destroy, ruin, demolish [with accusative]

   Synonyms: skemma, rústa

   Er ég að eyðileggja deitið?! ― Am I ruining the date?!

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• (destroy): eyðilagður, eyðilegging

References

• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “eyðileggja”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “eyðileggja” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)