The word(s) "destroyed" appears 39 time(s) in 39 verse(s) in Quran in Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation.

(21) Then see what was the end of their plot!- this, that We destroyed them and their people, all (of them).

(22) We did reveal to Moses the Book after We had destroyed the earlier generations, (to give) Insight to men, and guidance and Mercy, that they might receive admonition.

(23) And how many populations We destroyed, which exulted in their life (of ease and plenty)! now those habitations of theirs, after them, are deserted,- All but a (miserable) few! and We are their heirs!

(24) He said: "This has been given to me because of a certain knowledge which I have." Did he not know that Allah had destroyed, before him, (whole) generations,- which were superior to him in strength and greater in the amount (of riches) they had collected? but the wicked are not called (immediately) to account for their sins.

(25) Does it not teach them a lesson, how many generations We destroyed before them, in whose dwellings they (now) go to and fro? Verily in that are Signs: Do they not then listen?

(26) See they not how many generations before them we destroyed? Not to them will they return:

(27) Then We destroyed the rest.

(28) So We destroyed (them)- stronger in power than these;- and (thus) has passed on the Parable of the peoples of old.

(29) What! Are they better than the people of Tubba and those who were before them? We destroyed them because they were guilty of sin.

(30) We destroyed aforetime populations round about you; and We have shown the Signs in various ways, that they may turn (to Us).