All decimation synonyms

noun decimation

• massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
• bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
• annihilation — the act of annihilating
• devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
• cataclysm — A cataclysm is an event that causes great change or harm.
• catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
• holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
• massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
• carnage — Carnage is the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war.
• slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
• murder — Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
• bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
• genocide — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
• bloodshed — Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded.
• assassination — to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.
• liquidation — the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.
• demolition — The demolition of a building is the act of deliberately destroying it, often in order to build something else in its place.
• destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
• slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
• killing — the act of killing, especially game: The hounds moved in for the kill.
• armageddon — Armageddon is a terrible battle or war that some people think will lead to the total destruction of the world or the human race.
• butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
• obliteration — the act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• self-extinguishing — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
• demolishment — to destroy or ruin (a building or other structure), especially on purpose; tear down; raze.