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All destruction synonyms

de·struc·tion
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noun destruction

  • demolition — The demolition of a building is the act of deliberately destroying it, often in order to build something else in its place.
  • loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
  • 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)
  • ruinruins, 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.
  • 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.
  • slaughterFrank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
  • annihilation — the act of annihilating
  • carnage — Carnage is the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war.
  • ruination — the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined.
  • undoing — the reversing of what has been done; annulling.
  • liquidation — the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.
  • downfall — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
  • wrecking — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
  • havoc — great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage.
  • subversion — an act or instance of subverting.
  • overthrow — to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish: to overthrow a tyrant.
  • invalidation — to render invalid; discredit.
  • bane — The bane of someone or the bane of someone's life is something that frequently makes them feel unhappy or annoyed.
  • abolition — The abolition of something such as a system or practice is its formal ending.
  • wreckage — act of wrecking; state of being wrecked.
  • crushing — A crushing defeat, burden, or disappointment is a very great or severe one.
  • sacking — the plundering of a captured place; pillage: the sack of Troy.
  • shattering — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
  • ravaging — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
  • subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
  • obliteration — the act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated.
  • devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
  • damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
  • abolishing — Present participle of abolish.
  • assassinating — Present participle of assassinate.
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