destruction
The act of destroying.
Example
“The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.”
Other meanings
The results of a destructive event.
“Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.”
A group of feral cats.
Related words
- angiodestruction
- autodestruction
- cyclodestruction
- cytodestruction
- destructional
- destructionism
- destructionist
- macrodestruction
- megadestruction
- neurodestruction
- nondestruction
- phosphodestruction
Word history
From Latin "destructio" (dēstructiō, dēstructiōnem).
Where this comes from
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