destruction

n

1. demolition, wipe-out, pulverization, wrecking, wreckage, rack and ruin; razing, gutting, felling, prostration, leveling; pulling down, tearing down, taking down, bringing down, breaking down, throwing down, casting down, beating down, knocking down; shattering, crashing, crack-up, collision, smashing, battering, breaking; fracture, splintering, tear, crack, split, rending, tearing apart, wrenching apart; explosion, (of a rocket) destruct, burst, ful-mination, implosion, blast; mutilation, laceration, damage, spoil, marking, spotting, stain; disfigurement, scarring, defacement, blemish.

2. devastation, desolation, ravagement, havoc, holocaust, ruination; despoilment, robbing, spoliation, plundering, depredation, pillage, gutting, ransacking; vandalism, vandalizing, wasting, Sl. trashing.

3. quashing, crushing, quelling, subduing, stifling, suppression, squelching, vanquishment, squashing; cutting short, shooting down, Inf. putting the kibosh on, nipping, nipping in the bud; termination, checking, putting an end to, dissolution, stopping; overthrow, overturning, overwhelming, overcoming; subversion, toppling, upsetting, defeat, conquering; damnation, sealing the doom of, cursing; annihilation, discreation, extermination, extirpation.

4. erasure, erasion, effacement, eradication, expunging, obliteration, blotting out, sponging out, wiping out, rubbing out, cancellation, striking out; scratching out, deleting, crossing out, Print. dele, marking off.

5. undoing, unmaking, unbuilding, dismantling, disassembling, taking apart.

6. killing, killing off, slaying, slaughter, putting an end to, making an end of, bringing to an end; murder, sacrifice, immolation, disposing of, finishing off, Sl. doing in, Sl. zapping, assassination, getting rid of, mowing down, doing away with, putting out of the way, Inf. wiping out, removal; massacre, liquidation, butchery, carnage, decimation; extinguishing, extinction, quenching, snuffing out, putting out, stamping out, smothering, choking; devouring, swallowing up, consumingness, eating away; drowning, strangling, setting fire to, shipwreck, submerging, snooting, gar-roting, hanging, knifing, decapitation.

7. annulment, nullification, disannulment, voidance, avoidance; quashing, Law. defeasance, invalidation, vitiation, Law. vacatur, disenactment, disestablishment; cancellation, discharge, setting aside; repeal, revocation, rescission, rescinding, reversal, abrogation, abolition; suspension, Law. nolle prosequi, cessation, discontinuance, breaking off; countermand, counterorder, overruling, overriding; veto, negation.

8. disproof, refutation, confutation, rebuttal; disputation, denial, opposition, countering; contradiction, belying, negation; overturning, overthrowing, disparagement, demeaning, debasing.

9. weakening, undermining, enfeeblement, debilitation, enervation, exhaustion, sapping, devitalization; disablement, breakdown, paralyzation.

10. neutralization, frustration; counterpoise, counterbalance, counteraction, contravention; overbalancing, outweighing.