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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
Example Sentences
In one clip, a man says: "This is the last area we can reach. The Israeli army is still nearby. Look at the scale of destruction, they've destroyed everything."
This year's update focused on regions where the destruction of tropical forest poses a growing threat to birds.
The prosecutor told the court Dogan had been "unwilling to take responsibility" for a "massive act of destruction of a woman" that had denied her humanity.
Their public statements have expressed horror over the killing and destruction in Gaza, and the starvation and in places famine caused by Israel's blockades of aid.
By surging past $4,000 for the first time ever this week, gold is “reinforcing its role as a hedge against accelerating fiat destruction and fiscal instability,” he told MarketWatch.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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