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destruction
noun as in demolition, devastation
Strongest matches
annihilation, carnage, elimination, eradication, extermination, extinction, loss, massacre, murder, ruin, slaughter
Strong matches
abolition, bane, crushing, dissolving, downfall, end, extinguishing, extirpation, havoc, invalidation, liquidation, overthrow, ravaging, ruination, sacking, shattering, slaying, subjugation, subversion, undoing, wreckage, wrecking
Weak matches
abolishing, assassinating, crashing, disintegrating, disrupting, invalidating, subverting
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Example Sentences
“The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program,” the Times reported.
Some of the streets in this part of the town have seen large scale-destruction.
And the Gävle Goat, apparently a sensitive creature, took the destruction hard.
Gävle Goat must be dreading the imminent holiday and his fifty-fifty chance of destruction.
And suddenly you were in the throes of both creation and destruction.
The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.
All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction.
In the time of destruction they shall pour out their force: and they shall appease the wrath of him that made them.
To fix on any one stage in such an evolution, detach it, affirm it, is to wrest a true scripture to its destruction.
It also occurs in diseases with extensive and rapid destruction of red blood-corpuscles.
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On this page you'll find 111 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to destruction, such as: annihilation, carnage, elimination, eradication, extermination, and extinction.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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