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destruction - 20 thesaurus results
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
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
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
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
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
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: 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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