Destruction

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of destroying.
  • n. The condition of having been destroyed.
  • n. The cause or means of destroying: weapons that could prove to be the destruction of humankind.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of destroying.
  • n. The results of a destructive event.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.
  • n. The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated.
  • n. A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of destroying; demolition; a pulling down, as of a building; subversion or overthrow, as of a government or a principle; ruin, as of a town, a crop, reputation, virtue, etc.; annihilation or deprivation of existence, as of a man or a forest.
  • n. The state of being destroyed; ruin.
  • n. Cause of destruction; a consuming plague or ruinous infliction; a destroyer.
  • n. Synonyms and Overthrow, desolation, extirpation, eradication, extermination, extinction, devastation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something
  • n. the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
  • n. a final state
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    state   
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    destroy    devastation   
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    ruin    loss    violence    disaster    slaughter    misery    development    death    conquest    murder