It destroys you over the course of a very, very long time!
Liming tends to produce earlier crops and destroys the fungus which causes finger-and-toe or club-root among turnips and cabbages.
In like manner the evil which one does in the interval of a day prevents the germs of virtues which began to spring up again from developing themselves and destroys them.
This prevents infection from outside and also destroys any spores or fungus mycelium that may have been packed away along with the bulbs.
He destroys " the three shepherds " in one month, but is soon weary of his flock and the flock of him.