destruction
11destruction — Destruction, Disperditio, Vastitas, Vastatio, Excidium. Destruction de quelque chose que ce soit, Pernicies. La destruction du pays, Patriae interitus. Destruction des moeurs, Morum populatio. Estre cause de la destruction d une ville,… …
12Destruction — Allgemeine Informatione …
13destruction — early 14c., from O.Fr. destruction (12c.) and directly from L. destructionem (nom. destructio) a pulling down, destruction, from pp. stem of destruere tear down (see DESTROY (Cf. destroy)) …
14destruction — [di struk′shən] n. [ME destruccioun < OFr destruction < L destructio < destructus, pp. of destruere: see DESTROY] 1. the act or process of destroying; demolition or slaughter 2. the fact or state of being destroyed 3. the cause or means… …
15Destruction — Destruction, lat. Verwüstung, Zerstörung; destructiv, zerstören, revolutionär; destruiren, zerstören …
16destruction — *ruin, havoc, devastation Analogous words: demolishing or demolition, razing (see corresponding verbs at DESTROY): annihilation, extinction (see corresponding verbs at ABOLISH) …
17destruction — [n] demolition, devastation abolishing, abolition, annihilation, assassinating, bane, carnage, crashing, crushing, disintegrating, disrupting, dissolving, downfall, elimination, end, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishing,… …
18destruction — ► NOUN 1) the action of destroying or the state of being destroyed. 2) a cause of someone s ruin. ORIGIN Latin, from destruere destroy …
19destruction — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, total, utter, wholesale ▪ large scale, mass, massive, widespread ▪ modern weapons of mass …
20destruction — n. 1) to carry out destruction (with a human subject: the soldiers carried out the total destruction of the village) 2) to cause destruction (with any subject: the flood caused great destruction) 3) complete, total, utter; wanton destruction * *… …
