Definition of destruction

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Destruction (n.) The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

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Perishable :: Perishable (a.) Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies..
Ruin :: Ruin (n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes..
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
Ruin :: Ruin (n.) That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction..
Destruction :: Destruction (n.) The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.
Proscribe :: Proscribe (v. t.) To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents..
Wrack :: Wrack (n.) Wreck; ruin; destruction.
Eversion :: Eversion (n.) The act of eversing; destruction.
Repair :: Repair (v. t.) To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune..
Desolation :: Desolation (n.) The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Disjection :: Disjection (n.) Destruction; dispersion.
Suicide :: Suicide (adv.) The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind..
Ruin :: Ruin (n.) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.
Liberticide :: Liberticide (n.) The destruction of civil liberty.
Liad :: liad (n.) A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer..
Deperdition :: Deperdition (n.) Loss; destruction.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train..
Dissolution :: Dissolution (n.) Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
Waste :: Waste (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder..
Sweep :: Sweep (n.) Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease..
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