DESTRUCTION Synonyms

• the state of being decayed or destroyed

• the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed

• an event that results in total destruction

• plundering with excessive damage and destruction

• the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

• destruction by annihilating something

• total destruction

• an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

• an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

• a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune

• a sudden violent change in the earth's surface

• the state of being decayed or destroyed

• a bleak and desolate atmosphere

• sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned

• an event that results in total destruction

• separation into component parts

• the process of going into solution

• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

• the termination of a meeting

• the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)

• failure that results in a loss of position or reputation

• the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)

• a sudden decline in strength or number or importance

• the complete destruction of every trace of something

• complete annihilation

• the act of exterminating

• destruction by annihilating something

• the complete destruction of every trace of something

• (usually plural) a destructive action

• make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction

• an event that results in destruction

• failure that results in a loss of position or reputation

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked

• kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many

• destroy completely, as if down to the roots

• The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.

• The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.

• the event of dying or departure from life

• the personification of death

• the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism

• the absence of life or state of being dead

• the time when something ends

• the time at which life ends; continuing until dead

• a final state

• the act of killing

• either extremity of something that has length

• the point in time at which something ends

• the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence

• the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it

• a final part or section

• a final state

• the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object

• (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage

• a boundary marking the extremities of something

• one of two places from which people are communicating to each other

• the part you are expected to play

• the last section of a communication

• a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

• (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line

• have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

• bring to an end or halt

• be the end of; be the last or concluding part of

• put an end to

• an event that completely destroys something

• a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard)