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| Main Entry: | destruction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demolition, devastation |
| Synonyms: | abolition, bane, carnage, downfall, elimination, end, eradication, extinction, extirpation, havoc, loss, massacre, murder, overthrow, ruin, slaughter, subversion, undoing, wreckage, wrecking, abolishing, annihilation, assassinating, crashing, crushing, disintegrating, disrupting, dissolving, extermination, extinguishing, invalidating, invalidation, liquidation, ravaging, ruination, sacking, shattering, slaying, subjugation, subverting |
| Antonyms: | building, construction, creation, improvement, reparation, restoration |
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| Main Entry: | destruction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
Kafkaesque, baneful, deadly, deletory, destroyed, destroying, destructive, detrimental, disintegrous, dislimning, exitious, extinct, fatiferous, fricative, incendiary, internecine, irrefragable, lethiferous, marcescent, marcid, mundicidious, nocuous, nodding to its fall, perishing, phthartic, poisonous, putrescent, ruinous, saprogenic, slighted, subversive, suicidal, symphoric, tottering to its fall, trembling to its fall, venene, veneniferous, virose, vorpal, wasted
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-nouns
destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization., fall, downfall, ruin, peridition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout., extinction, annihilation; destruction of life [more]; knock-down blow; doom, crack of doom., destroying; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition (abrogation) [more]; biblioclasm; sacrifice; ravage, devastation, razzia; incendiarism; revolution [more]; extirpation (extraction) [more]; commencement de la fin, road to ruin; dilapidation (deterioration) [more]; sabotage.
-verbs
be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall., destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annul [more]; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume., smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground., deal destruction, lay waste, ravage, gut; disorganize; dismantle (render useless) [more]; devour, swallow up, desolate, devastate, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincement of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate [more].
-adjectives
destroyed; perishing; trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall; in course of destruction; extinct; all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing., destructive, subversive, ruinous, incendiary, deletory; destroying n. suicidal; deadly (killing) [more].
-adverbs
with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer.
-phrases
delenda est Carthago [Cato. "Carthage must be destroyed" (Latin)]; dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit ["While Rome deliberates Saguntum perishes" (Latin)]; ecrasez
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| Antonyms: | production |
| Main Entry: | abolition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal act of putting an end to, annulling |
| Synonyms: | abrogation, annulment, cancellation, destruction, dissolution, elimination, end, ending, eradication, extirpation, negation, overthrow, repeal, repudiation, revocation, subversion, suppression, termination, withdrawal, abolishment, annihilation, invalidation, nullification, obliteration, overturning, quashing, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, voiding, wiping out |
| Antonyms: | confirmation, establishment, establishment, institution, promotion, legalization |
| Main Entry: | bane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cause of misery |
| Synonyms: | affliction, blight, burden, calamity, curse, despair, destruction, disaster, downfall, misery, nuisance, pest, plague, poison, ruin, scourge, torment, trial, trouble, undoing, venom, woe, bête noir, fatal attraction, ruination |
| Antonyms: | advantage, blessing, fortune, good luck |
| Main Entry: | collapse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | downfall, breakdown |
| Synonyms: | bankruptcy, basket case*, cataclysm, catastrophe, crash, debacle, destruction, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, exhaustion, failure, faint, flop, prostration, smash, smashup, undoing, wreck, cave-in, conk out*, crackup*, ruination, ruining, subsidence |
| Antonyms: | increase, rise, success, build-up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | collision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident |
| Synonyms: | blow, bump, butt, concussion, contact, crash, destruction, dilapidation, encounter, fender bender*, hit, impact, jar, jolt, knock, percussion, pileup*, rap, ruin, shock, slam, smash, strike, thud, thump, wreck, demolishment, head-on, sideswipe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devouring; use |
| Synonyms: | burning, consuming, damage, decay, decrease, depletion, desolation, destruction, devastation, diminution, dispersion, dissipation, eating, exhaustion, expenditure, loss, misuse, ruin, swallowing, waste, wear and tear, drinking, using up, utilization |
| Antonyms: | starvation, fasting |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains*, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extinction, fatality, finish, grave, grim reaper*, heaven, loss, mortality, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, quietus, release, repose, ruin, silence, sleep, termination, tomb, annihilation, eternal rest, extermination, finis, necrosis, obliteration, passing over, ruination |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | doom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate or decision, usually unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | Judgment Day, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, circumstance, conclusion, condemnation, death, decree, destination, destiny, destruction, disaster, downfall, end, fortune, judgment, karma, kismet, lot, opinion, portion, predestination, ruin, sentence, tragedy, verdict, Moira, annihilation, fixed future, foreordination, handwriting on wall, lap of the gods, predetermination, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles |
| Main Entry: | downfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disgrace, ruin |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, bane, breakdown, cloudburst, collapse, comedown, comeuppance, debacle, decadence, degeneracy, deluge, descent, destruction, deterioration, discomfiture, down, drop, failure, fall, flood, overthrow, rack and ruin, storm, undoing, declension, degeneration, devolution, on the rocks, road to ruin, ruination, the skids |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, ascent, rise, success |
| Main Entry: | elimination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | removal |
| Synonyms: | cut, destruction, discard, ejection, eradication, exclusion, expulsion, omission, rejection, riddance, withdrawal, displacement, dropping, extermination, taking away, weeding out |
| Main Entry: | entropy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deterioration |
| Synonyms: | breakup, collapse, decay, decline, destruction, degeneration, falling apart, worsening |
| Main Entry: | erosion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deterioration; wearing away |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, attrition, consumption, corrosion, decrease, despoliation, destruction, disintegration, wear, desedimentation, eating away, grinding down, spoiling, washing away, wearing down |
| Notes: | abrasion is the process of wearing down or rubbing away by means of friction; corrosion is the act or process of destroying a metal or alloy gradually, especially by oxidation or chemical action; erosion is any of a group of natural processes, including weathering, dissolution, abrasion, corrosion, and transportation, by which material is worn away from the earth's surface |
| Antonyms: | building, construction, rebuilding, strengthening |
| Main Entry: | extinction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dying out |
| Synonyms: | death, destruction, elimination, annihilation, end of life, no life, obsolescence, thing of the past |
| Main Entry: | havoc |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chaotic situation |
| Synonyms: | calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, chaos, confusion, damage, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, disorder, disruption, loss, mayhem, plunder, rack and ruin, shambles*, vandalism, waste, wreck, wreckage, despoiling, ravages, ruination |
| Antonyms: | peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune |
| Synonyms: | abuse, affection, affliction, ailment, complaint, condition, cruelty, damage, depravity, destruction, disease, disorder, evil, harm, hurt, illness, indisposition, infirmity, injury, insult, malady, malaise, malice, mischief, misery, pain, sickness, suffering, syndrome, trial, tribulation, trouble, unpleasantness, wickedness, woe, wrong, badness |
| Antonyms: | benefit, blessing, fortune, happiness, luck, privilege, profit, prosperity |
| Main Entry: | leak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening; seepage through opening |
| Synonyms: | aperture, chink, crack, crevice, decrease, destruction, detriment, drip, drop, escape, expenditure, exposure, fissure, flow, hole, loss, outgoing, pit, puncture, slip, leakage, leaking, percolation, short circuit |
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
| Synonyms: | accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, need, perdition, privation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage, dispossession, impairment, mislaying, misplacing, retardation, squandering |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | mayhem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chaos, confusion |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, commotion, destruction, disorder, fracas, havoc, pandemonium, trouble, violence |
| Antonyms: | calm, harmony, peace |
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