Destruction

Noun

 * 1) The act of destroying.
 * The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.
 * 1) The results of a destructive event.
 * Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.

Adjectives for Destruction
sudden; instant; universal; wanton; daily; self; total; wild; brilliant; mutual; eventual; willful; indiscriminate; probable; consequent; miserable; practical; comprehensive; threatening; remorseless; deliberate; useless; apparent; utter; flashing; inconceivable; inevitable; ominous; merciless; incalculable; ultimate; sheer; wasting; lawless; necessary; subsequent.

Verbs for Destruction
attempt—; await—; behold—; bring on— contemplate—; crumble into—; dash to— deliver from—; ensure—; foredoom to— incline to—; invite—; involve in—; lead to—; leap to—; lure to—; redeem—; rejoice in—; rescue from—; revel in— revenge—; rush to—; seek—; send to— shower—; smite with—; sweep with— suffer—; thirst for—; woo—; work—.

Synonyms for Destruction
ruin, desolation, devastation, extirpation, fall, havoc, cataclysm, obliteration, extinction, annihilation, extermination, eradication, demolition, subversion, downfall, overthrow, abolishment.

Antonyms for Destruction
restoration, replacement, renewal, recovery, revival, restitution, reparation, reinstatement.

Related terms

 * destroy
 * destructionless
 * destructive

Thesaurus
Waterloo, abomination, abscission, amputation, annihilation, assassination, atrocity, bad, bane, bankruptcy, beating, befoulment, bereavement, blight, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, breakage, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, collapse, confusion, conquering, conquest, corruption, cost, crack-up, crash, crippling, crying evil, damage, dead loss, dealing death, deathblow, debacle, debit, defeat, defilement, demolition, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, despoliation, destroyer, destruction of life, detriment, devastation, dilapidation, disablement, dispatch, dispossession, disrepair, divestment, downfall, drubbing, elimination, encroachment, end, eradication, euthanasia, evil, excision, exclusion, execution, expense, extermination, extinction, extirpation, failure, fall, flow of blood, forfeit, forfeiture, genocide, gore, grievance, harm, havoc, hiding, hobbling, holocaust, hurt, hurting, ill, immolation, impairment, incapacitation, infection, infringement, injury, inroad, kill, killing, lambasting, lapidation, lathering, laying waste, licking, liquidation, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, maiming, martyrdom, martyrization, massacre, mastery, mayhem, mercy killing, mischief, murder, mutilation, outrage, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, perdition, poison, poisoning, pollution, privation, putting away, quietus, ravagement, razing, rescission, ritual killing, ritual murder, robbery, ruin, ruination, ruining, ruinousness, sabotage, sacrifice, scathe, shooting, sickening, slaughter, slaying, smash, spoiling, spoliation, stoning, stripping, subdual, subduing, subjugation, taking away, taking of life, tearing down, termination, the worst, thrashing, total loss, toxin, trimming, trouncing, undoing, vanquishment, venom, vexation, weakening, whipping, wiping out, woe, wrecking, wrong

Etymology
< destrucion: <  destructio:.

Translations

 * Arabic: تدمير, قضاء
 * Chinese: ,
 * Croatian: uništenje, propast, katastrofa, razrušenje, uništavanje, sravnjenje sa zemljom
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: καταστροφή (katastrofi), συντριβή (sintrivi)
 * Hebrew: הריסה (harisa) (1); הרס (heres)  (2)


 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 絶滅
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ناهێشتن, وێرانی
 * Latin: exitium, -i
 * Polish: niszczenie
 * Romanian: distrugere
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Esperanto: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Etymology
destrucion: < destructio:.

Related terms

 * détruire