Synonyms include:
1. (knock down, raze): level, demolish, fell, wreck, ruin, shatter blast, blow up, dynamite, explode, bomb,
2. (damage): disfigure, blight, mar, impair, deface, scar, injure, harm, devastate, wreak havoc on, total
3. (spoil) disrupt, undo,upset, put an end to, put a stop to, terminate, frustrate, crush, quash, dash, scotch, scuttle
4. (kill) put down, put to sleep, slaughter, terminate, exterminate, euthanize.
5. (wipe out) annihilate, wipe out, obliterate, eliminate, eradicate, liquidate, finish off, erase, slaughter, massacre
informal: take out, rub out, snuff out, waste, fry, nuke, zap
destroy the incrimating clues
Demolish, defeat, ruin.
synonym: file, save, store antonym: throw out, destroy, erase
Destroy, crush, obliterate, eliminate.
destroy, ruin, sack, wreck, demolish, level, ravage, raze
Destroy
"Plunder" is a synonym of "ransack."
destruction
kill, destroy, annihilate
destroy the incrimating clues
Demolish, defeat, ruin.
synonym: file, save, store antonym: throw out, destroy, erase
Destroy, crush, obliterate, eliminate.
do away with, end, destroy, eliminate, cancel, ditch (slang)
destroy, ruin, sack, wreck, demolish, level, ravage, raze
knock down, level, destroy, dismantle, flatten, tear down, bulldoze, raze
Another word for overthrow is defeat. Also the word destroy is another example. You could use the word seize as a synonym of the word overthrow.