The word(s) "destroyed" appears 66 time(s) in 62 verse(s) in Quran in Mohsin Khan translation.

(21) And how many a generation before them have We destroyed! Can you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) find a single one of them or hear even a whisper of them?

(22) Is it not a guidance for them (to know) how many generations We have destroyed before them, in whose dwellings they walk? Verily, in this are signs indeed for men of understanding.

(23) And if We had destroyed them with a torment before this (i.e. Messenger Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and the Qur'an), they would surely have said: "Our Lord! If only You had sent us a Messenger, we should certainly have followed Your Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), before we were humiliated and disgraced."

(24) Not one of the towns (populations), of those which We destroyed, believed before them (though We sent them signs): will they then believe?

(25) Then We fulfilled to them the promise. So We saved them and those whom We willed, but We destroyed Al-Musrifun (i.e. disbelievers in Allah, in His Messengers, extravagants, transgressors of Allah's limits by committing crimes, oppressions, polytheism and sins).

(26) How many a town (community) given to wrong-doing, have We destroyed, and raised up after them another people!

(27) And a ban is laid on every town (population) which We have destroyed that they shall not return (to this world again, nor repent to Us).

(28) So they denied them both [Musa (Moses) and Harun (Aaron)] and became of those who were destroyed.

(29) And We said: "Go you both to the people who have denied Our Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.)." Then We destroyed them with utter destruction.

(30) So they belied him, and We destroyed them. Verily in this is indeed a sign, yet most of them are not believers.