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
Demolish, defeat, ruin.
destroy the incrimating clues
synonym: file, save, store antonym: throw out, destroy, erase
Destroy, crush, obliterate, eliminate.
destroy, ruin, sack, wreck, demolish, level, ravage, raze
"Plunder" is a synonym of "ransack."
Destroy
destruction
kill, destroy, annihilate
Demolish, defeat, ruin.
destroy the incrimating clues
synonym: file, save, store antonym: throw out, destroy, erase
Destroy, crush, obliterate, eliminate.
knock down, level, destroy, dismantle, flatten, tear down, bulldoze, raze
do away with, end, destroy, eliminate, cancel, ditch (slang)
destroy, ruin, sack, wreck, demolish, level, ravage, 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.