destruction
Syllables: des·truc·tion/dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/
destruction noun: the act of destroying.
Noun
destruction (countable and uncountable, plural destructions)
- The act of destroying.
- The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.
- It may be that a free society as we have known it carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of...1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, pages 431-432
- The results of a destructive event.
- Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.
- If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.1838 January 27, Abraham Lincoln, The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions (Lyceum Address), Springfield, Illinois; published in Marion Mills Miller, editor, Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln...
- A group of feral cats.
- A group of wild cats is called a destruction.2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2022
destruction meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
destruction in Hindi
- act of destroying
- नाश nāś, विनाश vināś, ध्वंस dhvans, विध्वंस vidhvans
- results of a destructive event
- विनाश vināś
destruction in Tamil
- அழிவு, அழிமானம், பேரழிவு
destruction in Marathi
- act of destroying
- नाश nāś, विनाश vināś
- results of a destructive event
- नाश nāś, विनाश vināś
destruction in Urdu
- act of destroying
- تباہی tabāhī
- results of a destructive event
- تباہی tabāhī
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- destruction in Bengali
- ধস dhôś, প্রলয় proloẏ, পতন poton, বিনাশ binaś
- destruction in Telugu
- హతాహతము hatāhatamu, సంహారము saṁhāramu, ప్రళయము praḷayamu, చ్యుతి cyuti
- destruction in Malayalam
- സംഹാരം saṁhāraṁ, നശിപ്പിക്കൽ naśippikkal, നാശം nāśaṁ
- destruction in Kannada
- ನಾಶ nāśa
- destruction in Punjabi
- ناس nās, ਨਾਸ nās, ਖਉ khau, قیامت qiyāmat
- destruction in Gujarati
- મરણ maraṇ
- destruction in Odia
- ଶେଷ śeṣa, ସାଦ sāda, ନଷ୍ଟ naṣṭa
- destruction in Sanskrit
- नाश nāśa, विनाश vināśa, भङ्ग bhaṅga, संहार saṃhāra
- destruction in Nepali
- बिमाख् bimākh
- destruction in Arabic
- تَدْمِير tadmīr, هَدْم hadm, تَلَف talaf
- destruction in Persian
- تخریب taxrib
- destruction in Thai
- การทำลาย
Examples of destruction in a sentence
- He looked in dismay at the destruction of the town caused by the hurricane.
- The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.
- The mutuality of mutually assured destruction is key to its function as a deterrent.
Synonyms of destruction
- annihilation
- demolition
- elimination
- eradication
- extermination
- extinguishment
- extirpation
- obliteration
- razing
- uprooting
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Antonyms
Forms of destruction
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Origin of destruction
Inherited from Middle English destruccioun, from Old French destrucion, from Latin dēstructiō, dēstructiōnem.
Words formed from destruction
- angiodestruction
- autodestruction
- creative destruction
- cyclodestruction
- cytodestruction
- demand destruction
- destructional
- destructionism
- destructionist
- destruction permit
- macrodestruction
- mass destruction
- megadestruction
- mutual assured destruction
- mutually assured destruction
- neurodestruction
- nondestruction
- pandestruction
- phosphodestruction
- photodestruction
- thermodestruction
- weapon of mass destruction
Phrases with destruction
Words that rhyme with destruction
- induction
- reduction
- construction
- instruction
- deduction
- suction
- transduction
- introduction
- traduction
- conduction
- eduction
- fluxion
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Questions about destruction
- What does destruction mean?
- Destruction means the act of destroying.
- What is destruction in Hindi?
- Destruction in Hindi is नाश (nāś), विनाश (vināś), ध्वंस (dhvans). See Destruction meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is destruction?
- Destruction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce destruction?
- Destruction is pronounced /dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/.
- What is the plural of destruction?
- The plural of destruction is destructions.
Words near destruction in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: destruction (page history and authors); destruction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); খতম (Bengali) (page history and authors); చ్యుతి (Telugu) (page history and authors); ನಾಶ (Kannada) (page history and authors); قیامت (Punjabi) (page history and authors); મરણ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ନଷ୍ଟ (Odia) (page history and authors); बिमाख् (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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