The word(s) "destroy" appears 69 time(s) in 65 verse(s) in Quran in Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation.

(21) When We decide to destroy a population, We (first) send a definite order to those among them who are given the good things of this life and yet transgress; so that the word is proved true against them: then (it is) We destroy them utterly.

(22) How many generations have We destroyed after Noah? and enough is thy Lord to note and see the sins of His servants.

(23) There is not a population but We shall destroy it before the Day of Judgment or punish it with a dreadful Penalty: that is written in the (eternal) Record.

(24) Such were the populations we destroyed when they committed iniquities; but we fixed an appointed time for their destruction.

(25) But how many (countless) generations before them have we destroyed, who were even better in equipment and in glitter to the eye?

(26) But how many (countless) generations before them have We destroyed? Canst thou find a single one of them (now) or hear (so much as) a whisper of them?

(27) Moses said to him: Woe to you! Forge not ye a lie against Allah, lest He destroy you (at once) utterly by chastisement: the forger must suffer frustration!"

(28) Is it not a warning to such men (to call to mind) how many generations before them We destroyed, in whose haunts they (now) move? Verily, in this are Signs for men endued with understanding.

(29) (As to those) before them, not one of the populations which We destroyed believed: will these believe?

(30) In the end We fulfilled to them Our Promise, and We saved them and those whom We pleased, but We destroyed those who transgressed beyond bounds.