destruction

destruction
    n 1: the termination of something by causing so much damage to
         it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists [syn:
         {destruction}, {devastation}]
    2: an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys
       something [syn: {destruction}, {demolition}, {wipeout}]
    3: a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called
       glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" [syn: {end},
       {destruction}, {death}]
    

Destruction \De*struc"tion\, n. [L. destructio: cf. F.
   destruction. See {Destroy}.]
   1. The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to
      naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying;
      devastation.
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            The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of
            the sword, and slaughter, and destruction. --Esth.
                                                  ix. 5.
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            'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
            Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. --Shak.
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            Destruction of venerable establishment. --Hallam.
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   2. The state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain,
      or devastated.
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            This town came to destruction.        --Chaucer.
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            Thou castedst them down into destruction. --Ps.
                                                  lxxiii. 18.
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   2. A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a
      destroyer.
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            The destruction that wasteth at noonday. --Ps. xci.
                                                  6.

   Syn: Demolition; subversion; overthrow; desolation;
        extirpation; extinction; devastation; downfall;
        extermination; havoc; ruin.
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Destruction
in Job 26:6, 28:22 (Heb. abaddon) is sheol, the realm of the
dead.
    

173 Moby Thesaurus words for "destruction":
      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