The word(s) "destroy" appears 73 time(s) in 70 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Pickthal translation.

(31) And if we had destroyed them with some punishment before it, they would assuredly have said: Our Lord! If only Thou hadst sent unto us a messenger, so that we might have followed Thy revelations before we were (thus) humbled and disgraced!

(32) Not a township believed of those which We destroyed before them (though We sent them portents): would they then believe?

(33) Then we fulfilled the promise unto them. So we delivered them and whom We would, and We destroyed the prodigals.

(34) And there is a ban upon any community which We have destroyed: that they shall not return.

(35) How many a township have We destroyed while it was sinful, so that it lieth (to this day) in ruins, and (how many) a deserted well and lofty tower!

(36) So they denied them, and became of those who were destroyed.

(37) Then We said: Go together unto the folk who have denied Our revelations. Then We destroyed them, a complete destruction.

(38) And they denied him; therefor We destroyed them. Lo! herein is indeed a portent, yet most of them are not believers.

(39) Then afterward We destroyed the others.

(40) And We destroyed no township but it had its warners