destruction; devastation




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


Type of:
  • termination; ending; conclusion

Types:
  • disaster
  • kill
  • laying waste; ruin; ruining; ruination; wrecking
  • razing; leveling; tearing down; demolishing
  • annihilation; obliteration
  • decimation
  • self-destruction
  • neutralization; neutralisation
  • sabotage
  • extermination; liquidation
  • holocaust
  • demolition
  • spoliation
  • vandalism; hooliganism; malicious mischief


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